Design of a low-cost Hand Gesture Controlled Automated Wheelchair

Design and implementation of a low-cost hand gesture controlled automated wheelchair-using Arduino based microcontroller and Node MCU is presented in this paper. The main focus of this study is to control the wheelchair with the movement of the hand-wrist movement. Besides hand gestures, the wheelchair can also be controlled via Bluetooth technology. If any problem occurs during the hand gesture control, Bluetooth technology can help to control the wheelchair through assisting person. The design also has some additional features such as tracking the location of the wheelchair through GPS from anywhere of the world and emergency switching system to send messages to the assisting person through sensor-based network. Arduino Mega, Arduino Nano, NODE MCU, MPU 6050 Gyro sensor, Sonar Sensor,…