Design and development of electrical powered wheelchair model for navigation control

Author

Rosman, Rafidah ; Thamrin, Norashikin M. ; Yaacob, Afiqah ; Karim, Jamilah

Author_Institution

Centre for Electron. Eng. Studies, Univ. Teknol. MARA (UiTM), Shah Alam, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

25-28 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

675

Lastpage

680

Abstract

Manual wheelchair used to help the elderly and the handicapped for their mobility with assisted from other person. This paper presents a model of electrical powered wheelchair (EPW) which moves according to the motion mode of a joystick operated by a person. The signal from joystick is converted to digital signal by Analogue to Digital Converter (ADC). This digital signal will enable the microcontroller to perform simple control algorithm to drive the DC motor to move forward, backward, left and right. The design of the system was compact and small thus suitable to be implemented into real wheelchair.

Keywords

DC motors; analogue-digital conversion; electric vehicles; handicapped aids; machine control; microcontrollers; wheelchairs; DC motor; analogue to digital converter; digital signal; electrical powered wheelchair model design; handicapped mobility assistance; joystick; microcontroller; navigation control; DC motors; Manuals; Microcontrollers; Navigation; Pulse width modulation; Synchronous motors; Wheelchairs; DC motor; joystick; wheelchair model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), 2011 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1418-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIEA.2011.6108801

Filename

6108801