A New Design Approach for Gesture Controlled Smart Wheelchair Utilizing Microcontroller

Every year, a large number of people become lame due to a road accident and unable to walk normally. Wheelchair is the best assistive device used by the older and differently abled people who cannot walk normally. The driving and controlling of traditional manual wheelchair are much harder task. The modern wheelchairs like joystick-controlled and voice-controlled wheelchair is a bit difficult to operate for certain people like the older and physically weak people. Moreover, this wheelchair is not cost effective. So the aim of this paper is to make such a cost-effective electronic gesture-based wheelchair which will be easy to operate rather than the joystick input to control a wheelchair using in-built gesture function of a smartphone and touch sensor.…