VOICE CONTROLLED WHEEL

CHAIR
A WHEEL CHAIR WITH VOICE RECOGNITION SYSTEM

PROJECT REPORT
SUBMITTED BY
NETHRA S S
CEA18EC009

PRANAV P
CEA18EC011

In partial fulfilment for the award of degree of

BACHELOR OF TECNOLOGY

In
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION
OF
KERALA TECNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ATTINGAL
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ATTINGAL
(MANAGED BY IHRD, ESTABLISHED BY GOVT.OF KERALA)

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the report on “VOICE CONTROLLED
WHEEL CHAIR” is a bonafide report on the project work by
Nethra SS (CEA18EC009) and Pranav P of 5th semester B-Tech
in Electronics And Communication Engineering towards the
partial fulfilment of the requirement as a part of the curriculum
for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology by APJ
Abdul Kalam Technological University during the academic
year 2020-21

Smt. Anuradha PV Shri. Jibu J V Smt. Salini

S
Head of the department Associate professor Associate
Professor

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, we have great pleasure in expressing our deep
sense of gratitude to our coordinator and Head of our Department Smt.
Anuradha P V and also our Associate Professors Shri Jibu J V and
Smt. Salini S for their valuable help throughout this project work

We extend our overwhelming gratitude to Dr. Sunil T T, The

Principal of College Of Engineering Attingal and our staff advisor Shri.
Jaffer Khan P for their valuable guidance and meticulous supervision
during this project work.

We also extend our gratitude towards all faculties in the

Department of Electronics And Communication Engineering who
offered their whole hearted support towards the successful completion of
our seminar work.

Last but not least, our heartily and inevitable thank all the friends
who had helped us to bring out the project works in a successful manner.

NETHRA S S

PRANAV P

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 CONTENT
1. ABSTRACT……………………………………………..05
2. INTRODUCTION……………………………………….06
3. OBJECTIVE……………………………………………..07
4. LITERATURE REVIEW………………………………..08
5. ARDUINO UNO…………………………………………
09
6. BLUETOOTH MODULE……………………………….10
7. VOICE RECOGNITION KIT……………………………
11
8. DRIVER IC………………………………………………12
9. JOYSTICK CONTROLLER…………………………….13
10. SERIES MOTORS………………………………….14
11. WET BATTERIES…………………………………15
12. ANDRIOD PHONE WITH APP……………………
16
13. COMPLETE LIST OF VOICE COMMANDS……17
14. DESIGN……………………………………………18
15. WORKING…………………………………………21
16. BLOCK DIAGRAM………………………………..22
17. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES………23
18. FUTURE SCOPE…………………………………..24
19. COCLUSION………………………………………25
20. REFERENCE……………………………………….26

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 1.ABSTRACT
This paper presents an automatic wheel chair using voice
recognition. A voice controlled wheelchair makes it easy for
physically disabled person who cannot control their movements
of hands. The powered wheel chair depends on motors for
locomotion and voice recognition for command. The circuit
comprises of an Arduino, HM2007 Voice recognition module
and Motors. The voice recognition module recognizes the
command by the user and provides the corresponding coded data
stored in the memory to Arduino Microcontroller. Arduino
Microcontroller controls the locomotion accordingly. The
wheelchair also has provision for joystick for physically
disabled people who can move their hands.

Keywords Voice recognition, wheelchair, HM2007 module,

DC motor,Microcontroller Arduino

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 2.INTRODUCTION
Speech recognition is a technology that people can control the
system with their speech. Instead of typing on the keyboard or
operating the buttons for the system, using speech to control
system is more convenient. It can also reduce the cost of the
industry production at the same time.
Robotic wheelchairs have enhanced the manual wheelchairs by
introducing locomotion controls.These devices can ease the lives
of many disabled people, particularly those with severe
impairments by increasing their range of mobility.These robotic
enhancement will provide benefit people who cannot use hands
and legs.
In this project we have developed a voice controlled
wheelchair which aim to counter the above problems. The
wheelchair can be controlled using joystick as well as using
voice commands. He/She just needs to say the direction or move
the button for that direction and the wheelchair moves in the
desired direction this project.

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 3.OBJECTIVE

The main goal of this system is to design and implement a

wheelchair for handicapped user which is controlled with the
voice/joystickcommand from handicapped person. The long
term objectives of this proposed system are;
1. To design voice/joystick actuated miniature model of
wheelchair with the help of Arduino software.
2. To recognize voice command by Voice Recognition kit for
the control of the wheel chair
3. To design a voice/joystick controlling system with the use of
Arduino.
4. To interface Voice Recognition circuit with voice control
system and joystick circuit to control a proposed model of
wheelchair.
5. To build a wheelchair control project to move in response to
the disabled person’s voice. The project aims at controlling a
wheelchair by means of human voice/joystick. To equip the
motorized wheelchair control system with a voice command
system and joystick. By having this features, disabled people
especially with severe disabilities that they are unable to move

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their hand or other parts of a body, are able to move their
wheelchair around independently.

4.LITERATURE REVIEW

According to the several studies we have shown that the

independent mobility; which is included power wheel chair,
manual wheelchair and walker access the benefit to both
children and adults Independent mobility increases vocational
and educational opportunities, reduces dependence on caregivers
and family members, and promotes feelings of self-reliance. The
idea of using voice activated technology for controlling the
motion of the wheelchair is to prove that it can be a unique
concept that would stand apart from the rest of the average
projects. The use of this new technology in conjunction with a
mechanical system in order to simplify everyday life would
spark interest in an ever growing modern society. Many people
with disabilities do not have the dexterity necessary to control a
joystick on an electrical wheelchair. This can be a great for the
quadriplegics who is permanently unable to move any of the
arms or legs. They can use their wheelchair easier only using
voice commands.

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 5.ARDUINO UNO

The Arduino Uno is an open-source microcontroller board

based on the Microchip ATmega328P microcontroller and
developed by Arduino.cc. The board is equipped with sets of
digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced
to various expansion boards (shields) and other circuits. The
board has 14 digital I/O pins (six capable of PWM output), 6
analog I/O pins, and is programmable with the Arduino IDE
(Integrated Development Environment), via a type B USB cable.
It can be powered by the USB cable or by an external 9-volt
battery, though it accepts voltages between 7 and 20 volts. It is
similar to the Arduino Nano and Leonardo. The hardware
reference design is distributed under a Creative Commons
Attribution Share-Alike 2.5 license and is available on the
Arduino website

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 6.BLUTOOTH MODULE
Bluetooth module HC-05 is used for the transfer of
data from an android mobile to the Microcontroller
wirelessly. This module enables the serial data to transmit
wirelessly and receive. This module HC-05 is having 10
meters range. It operates on 5v supply. It can easily interface
with Microcontroller. Bluetooth HC-05 module is an easy to
use SPP (Serial Port Protocol) module, designed for
wireless serial connection setup

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 7.VOICE RECOGNITION KIT

Serial port Bluetooth module is fully qualified Bluetooth

V2.0+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) 3Mbps Modulation with
complete 2.4GHz radio transceiver and baseband. It uses CSR
Blue core 04-External single chip Bluetooth system with CMOS
technology and with AFH (Adaptive Frequency Hopping
Feature). It has the footprint as small as 12.7mmx27mm. Hope it
will simplify your overall design/development cycle.

FEATURES
 Typical -80dBm sensitivity
 Up to +4dBm RF transmit power
 Low Power 1.8V Operation ,1.8 to 3.6V I/O
 With integrated antenna
 PIO control 6. With edge connector

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 8.DRIVER IC
L298D is a high voltage and high current dual H-
bridge driver IC having 15 pin. It is used to drive the DC
motors. It operates on 12V power supply. It provides DC
current up 4A. The operating supply voltage is applied up
to 46V. It has over temperature protection and also has high
noise immunity means logical “0” voltage is up to 1.5V. L298D
is a dual H-bridge motor driver integrated circuit (IC).
Motor drivers act as current amplifiers as they take a low-
current control signal and provide a higher-current signal.
This higher current signal is used to drive the motors.

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 9.JOYSTICK CONTROLLER

The board is compatible to 6-25VDC input compared

to all robot control boards available which accepts
inputs just up to 12VDC.It has onboard two 5Amp
motor drivers MC33932 and expandable to four motor
drivers onboard
FEATURES

 On Board Regulator with filters and Operating voltage

from 6V-25V
 2General purpose LED’s
 2 Switches including reset
 Power on/off toggle switch 10A
 16MHz crystal for maximum speed
 Onboard LCD connector compatible to HD44780
LCD Modules
 LCD brightness control
 Power Indicator LED

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 10.SERIES MOTORS

Series motors used are of 12V. Series motors are

commonly used as tractions motors in many applications, as
they offer high starting torque, are robust, have a simple
design and are relatively low cost.
Reversing the Rotation of Motor The direction of rotation of
the series motor can be changed by changing the polarity
of either the armature or field winding. If you simply
changed the polarity of the applied voltage of 12v

FEATURES

 60RPM 12V DC motors with Gearbox

 3000RPM base motor
 6mm shaft diameter with internal hole
 125gm weight
 Same size motor available in various rpm
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  2kgcm torque
 No-load current = 60 mA(Max), Load current = 300
mA(Max

11.WET BATTERIES

Uses chemical reaction between lead and Sulphuric acid to

create electrical energy.

FEATURES

 12V 20AH wheelchair battery

 Low rate of self-discharge
 Maintenance free
 No pollution and no harm

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 12.ANDROID MOBILE WITH APP

Any an android mobile can be used. It is used as input

device it receives the voice command from the handicapped user
and converts this speech signal into text with the help of an
android application. Transfer this text to Bluetooth module with
the help of Bluetooth wirelessly.

12.1ANDROID APP
The above figure is the screenshot of the application to
recognize the voice and control the wheel chair using voice
commands. User first connects the mobile with the
Bluetooth module of the wheel chair. Then, the user can
control the wheelchair with the help of various voice

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commands like Go-ahead, Go-back, Turn-right, Turn-left
and Stop.

13.COMPLETE LIST OF VOICE

COMMANDS FOR CONTROLLER
INTERFACE

 Control: This is a “Mode” command which starts

the manual control of the wheelchair
 Go: This is a “Mode” command which starts the
automatic control of the wheelchair.
 Stop: This command terminates any operating
control mode and stops the wheelchair
immediately. After the stop command is given the
voice recognition process performs a self-test and
restarts in a neutral mode.
 Forward: This is a direction command that will set
the direction of the movement for the wheelchair

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  Reverse: This is a direction command that will set
the direction of the movement for the wheelchair
reverse
 Right :This is a direction command that will set
the direction of the movement for the wheelchair
to right
 left: This is a direction command that will set the
direction of the movement for the wheelchair to left

14.DESIGN

The device was setup and working was analysed. The device
was fitted on wheel chair and turned on. The device works
accordingly by the standards.
Interfacing of Arduino with HC-05
 VCC voltage in HC-05 is given from the +5V pin of the
Arduino board.
 GND of the HC-05 is connected to the GND pin of
Arduino board.
 Transmitter (TX) of HC-05 is connected to the
Receiver (RX) pin of the Arduino board.

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  Similarly Receiver (RX) of HC-05 is connected to the
Transmitter (TX) pin of the Arduino board.
 The first and last pin of HC-05 is not connected.

14.1CONNECTIONS

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 14.2.SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM
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 15.WORKING
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Working The input is taken from the android mobile; speech
signal is converted into the text with the help of an android
application. This text is transfer to the Microcontroller
which controls the movement and direction of wheel chair
via a Bluetooth module wirelessly. Microcontroller decides
the operation of the two DC motors depending on the text
received.
When the DC driver is connected to the motors and supply
of 12v is given from the external voltage chargeable source.
Interfacing of Arduino and HC-05 is done. With the help
of android phone connect the Bluetooth HC-05 to the
android app it is an independent speaker app.
• Backward: Motor1 moves in clockwise direction.
Similarly Motor2 moves in the clockwise direction and
the tyres of the wheelchair moves in backward direction.
• Forward: Motor1 moves in the anti-clockwise direction.
Similarly Motor2 moves in the anti-clockwise direction
and the tyres of the wheelchair moves in forward
direction.
• Left: Motor1 or the left tyre moves in the anti-
clockwise direction and simultaneously Motor2 or the
right tyre moves in the clockwise direction.
• Right: Motor2 or the right tyre moves in the anti-
clockwise direction and simultaneously Motor1 or the left
tyre moves in the clockwise direction.

16.BLOCK DIAGRAM
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 POWER SUPPLY
VOICE CONTROLLED
+
USER VOICE WHEEL CHAIR
SYSTEM MICROCONTROLLER
C/T

DC MOTOR
CIRCUIT

MOTOR
MOTOR 1
2
MOTION OF WHEEL
CHAIR

17.ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
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17.1 ADVANTAGES

 A handicapped person even with Legs and Hand can use

this and become Independent.
 Very rapidly changing input can be easily recognized due
to Android mobile.
 Suitable for practical application as compared to HM 2007.
 Requires less wiring because of Bluetooth section.
 Less Hardware require i.e. compact.
 Economical.
 Reduce manpower.

17.2 DISADVANTAGES

 Not suitable for a person with weight more than 80kg

 Uninterrupted internet connection is required

18.FUTURE SCOPE
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 The current system limits its application in noise free
environment. Future studies should aim at making it insensitive
to noise by introducing proper noise filter into it. By making
advanced and partial modifications, and also should focus on the
IR sensors if the wheelchair is interrupted by some objects. This
project can be used in acoustic control of vehicles’ braking
systems thus reducing risk of accidents. Further advancement in
this wheelchair are possible by decreasing the power
requirements of the wheel chair or finding a way to
automatically charge the battery with the help of motion of the
wheel chair or solar panel.

19.CONCLUSION
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 This paper described the successful implementation of a
motorized wheelchair controlled by a joystick or through voice
recognition.The voice recognition system worked for most of
the commands (over 95%). Only when a word was not properly
vocalized, the system did not recognize it.Overall, users reported
satisfaction with the system. The project provides the following
learning's:

1. Speech recognition module operation.

2. DC motors working and need for motor driver.
3. Interfacing Speech recognition module to Microcontroller
4. Relay working principle.

20.REFERENCE
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  "Hardware Index". Arduino Project.Retrieved 2013-12-10.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino

 http://www.instructables.com/id/Voice-Activated-Arduino-
Bluetooth-Android/

 ‘ARDUINO made simple’ by Ashwin Pachankar.

 www.google.co.in

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