Controlador de cadeira de rodas interativo para pessoas com deficiência utilizando conceitos de inteligência artificial

Abstract

People with disabilities have suffered some loss or some abnormality of a structure or psychological, physiological or anatomical function that causes does not have enough capacity in performing activities considered normal for people who have no disabilities. The existence of a large number of physically disabled people is very noticed by the population, these people having difficulties in locomotion and usually need to use resources, such as a wheelchair. This work presents a proposal to improve mobility of people with disabilities through the use of embedded systems to increase quality of life and social well being. To achieve the proposed goal, was structured a research methodology consisting of four steps: biomedical instrumentation, hardware development, software development and integration the software with the hardware. Initially biomedical instrumentation is done through electrodes placed near the eyes. the Software is developed with an artificial intelligence algorithm to move the motors of the chair through the instrumented signals. After, the hardware is developed using the Arduino and finally is done the integration of software and hardware, thus being able to perform the tests. The objective with this project is to develop an interactive system for people with physical disabilities to control a wheelchair through the electrical signals from the ocular nerve using concepts of Artificial Intelligence.