Progress page!!

as an introduction to this page ill give a brief rundown of the project i've been working on for about half a year:

Essentially, I've been working on developing a 'smart' wheelchair

The big focus has been navigation assitance and safety

The goal is to develop a product that can assist in the independent travel of wheelchair bound individuals

This applies more to those with severe disabilities who are incapable of travel by themselves

This is a big step towards independent living and ease of daily life for people who depend on wheelchairs.

Personally, I've worked with the safety features in the camera realm

We use a depth camera to detect objects and how far they are from the user

I only really helped with configuration and havent gotten to work much with this, but I really look forward to it!

I'd like to write a script that continuously checks the visual feed for terrain issues or objects that might be an issue

The big thing that I have worked on is the navigation assistance

To work on this, I first built a python script for ROUGH global positioning using the local IP as a prototype

When this worked, I then began working on other ways to increase accuracy of the program

Eventually, I (dr.Azab) purchased a usb gps module. It was super cool to interface with it and see how it worked

So I then wrote a python script to use the information that the GPS module gave

The gps module returns very precise coordinates

The coordinates can be used to give an exact location (much better than IP based)

Then, with the implementation of AI into the python script, the user can now

Request to go to a location and be given step-by-step directions to that location

The user is also told an estimated time of travel by wheelchair and estimated distance of travel

It was super fun to work with and I was so proud when it worked

I have lots of future plans for this project lined up, first being indor navigation without gps

Until then I am working on getting input from people with disabilities as to how this could help them

If you know anyone who may be impacted by this work, feel free to send the survey link to them:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekDn8abm7cgisNGGJNtbZXOuSshNq_3gm0KokhuhcNN4LbSw/viewform?usp=dialog

Im working on a lot more with the project now and hopefully I can upload some pics to this page soon

If you actually read through this thank you very much.