Elderly supportive intelligent wheelchair

Abstract

Difficulty of the mobility and independent life have become a huge debilitate to the elderly people. They need the assistance of the care givers to carry out their daily routines. At present, with the busy livelihoods of the people, they may have the chance of neglecting their responsibilities towards the elderly people. Friends and relatives cannot provide the assistance for them every time. Also, the huge gap between the supply and the demand of the caregivers is widening day by day. Due to these facts many reliable innovations are coming in to operation. The intelligent wheelchair system has been developed based on a manual wheelchair with the integration of relevant electrical and mechanical modifications. The system is employed with joystick control interface and human interactive facilities to achieve the daily tasks of the user easily. In addition to that,safety precaution and human interactive facilities such as emotion detection, voice recognition, taking calls, checking the availability of meals and washroom from the point where the user stayed are deployed in to the system. The functionality and the preference of the user towards the developed wheelchair has been verified by conducting a user study and the results are presented.