Students with smart wheelchair for the differently abled.
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At the national level
CoreEl-Digilent design contest held recently in Bengaluru, Jagan Mohan
and K.Dinesh Kumar, two B.Tech third year students of VIT University,
Vellore, bagged the first prize for inventing a smart wheelchair which
can be operated and controlled by physically challenged persons by using
voice commands like ‘forward, left, right, backward’ and so on. The two
students say that the wheel chair is affordable for people of any
economic status.
“I have been researching speech
recognition for the past six months, chanced upon an advertisement for
this competition and decided to enrol,” says Mohan. He was joined by
Kumar and the two have now won Rs 40,000 as cash prize and a trophy.
This
national level electronics hardware design contest for students had
invited innovative digital design projects featuring Digilent’s FPGA
boards. With 102 teams comprising 240 students and 88 faculty members
taking part in CDDC 2013, a group of eminent panellists shortlisted the
top 20 design ideas from among all the project proposals.
These 20 teams were then provided with the hardware necessary to implement their projects.
The
hardware included the latest FPGA boards and related accessories. The
teams implemented their projects, submitted detailed project reports and
brief video demonstrations. The top four teams from across the country
were invited to Bengaluru for the final presentation before
academicians.
“With the prize money, we now plan to design a
real-time model,” says Mohan and adds, “We have been lucky to be
encouraged by Prof N. Ramesh Babu Kumar, our teacher-in-charge and
chancellor Dr. G.Viswanathan.
Source : Deccan Chronicle , 24th July 2013
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