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Tongue Drive for People with Severe Disabilities

Saurabh Gupta

Abstract


The "Tongue Drive" system is a tongue-operated assistive innovation produced for individuals with extreme disability to control their condition. The tongue is viewed as a brilliant member in seriously handicapped individuals for working an assistive gadget. Tongue Drive comprises of a variety of Hall-effect magnetic sensors mounted on a dental retainer on the external side of the teeth to quantify the magnetic field created by a little permanent magnet made sure about on the tongue. The sensor signals are communicated over a wireless connection and prepared to control the movements of a cursor on a PC screen or to work a controlled wheelchair, a telephone, or other equipment's. The main advantage of this innovation is the chance of catching a huge assortment of tongue movements by handling a mix of sensor output. This would give the client a smooth corresponding control rather than a switch dependent on/off control that is the premise of most existing advancements. We demonstrated the impacts of position and direction of the permanent magnet on the sensors in FEMLAB and tentatively estimated them. We constructed a prototype system utilizing off-the-rack parts and tested it effectively by building up a graphical user interface (GUT) in LabVIEW condition. A little battery controlled wireless mouthpiece with no outside part is a work in progress.

 Keywords: Toung drive, hall effect, LabVIEW


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