Abstract

According to a new report prepared jointly by the World Health Organization and the World Bank, 15 percent of the world's population is disabled. The use of powered wheelchairs with high navigational intelligence is one of the great steps towards the integration of severely physically disabled and mentally handicapped people. Driving a wheelchair is a tedious task for severely handicapped persons, unless they use the tongue to control the joystick. Simultaneously blind and paraplegic people deal with two problems, which creates uneasy situation for them, i.e locomotion and localization. Different systems are being developed to overcome the problems described above, allowing the end-user to perform safe movements and accomplish some daily life important tasks. Our Robotic wheelchair uses eye blink and head tilt movement to steer the wheelchair. In addition, we can give more independence to the disabled person by using the same head-tilt movement to communicate with the devices in a room for example: a fan. This communication is done using a RFtransmitter and receiver. Using this, the person can control various devices easily.