An Approach to Develop a Smart and Intelligent Wheelchair

Physical disability has been an ongoing concern for the past few decades. Wheelchairs were developed as a means of helping physically disabled people. With the passing years, humans are depending on technology more often for our assistance. The early models required manual effort, but the later models included the use of joysticks and buttons to provide a more effective way of service. The proposed system will ensure that there is no need for any other human operator or caretaker. A voice-controlled wheelchair is developed which will perform this operation by taking commands from the user for its movement. The voice commands are given to an android application TextSearch with the help of its Artificial Intelligence and the wheelchair moves according to the given commands. The movement of the wheelchair is controlled over a wi-finetwork which is connected through various modules including the interfacing between android application and Raspberry Pi promoting the use of the IoT technology.