Technology for The Aid of Quadriplegics

To aid paraplegics, variety of electric wheelchairs exist in the market. Unfortunately, these cannot be used by persons with higher degree of impairment, such as quadriplegics, i.e. persons who, due to age or illness, cannot move any of their body parts, except head. An attempt is made to make lives of the people suffering from this problem simple and by simpler we mean self-reliant, which will thereby reinstate their confidence and their happiness. The idea is to create a Head Motion Controlled System which allow movement of the patient's wheelchair depending on the movements of the head. We know that a person suffering from quadriplegia can partially move his eyes and tilt his head, thus presenting an opportunity for detecting those movements. We have implemented a technology where a patient sitting on the Wheel Chair is able to move in a direction just by tilting his head in that direction.