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    “Smart Assistant”: A solution to facilitate vision impaired individuals
    (IEEE, 2018-10-02) Sankalpani, P; Wijesinghe, I; Jeewani, I; Anooj, R; Mahadikaara, M. D. J. T. H; Jayakody, A
    This paper presents a solution for vision impaired people to navigate through an unfamiliar indoor environment with the help of their smart phone. Although there are some solutions which address this scenario, they do have some problems such as lack of accuracy and inability to apply for real-life situations. So, the solution presented here avoids those drawbacks and apply more realistic and improved ways of navigating techniques. This prototype demonstrates how to localize and get map details as required to navigate indoor buildings with voice support. The end result of this research is to increase the accuracy and the easiness of this system compared to the existing supportive systems.
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    Smart wheelchair to facilitate disabled individuals
    (IEEE, 2019-12-05) Jayakody, A; Nawarathna, A; Wijesinghe, I; Liyanage, S; Dissanayake, J
    This paper describes the design and implementation of a voice controlled smart wheelchair for disabled whom the manual operation is difficult due to lack of physical strength. The main objective of this research is to develop a smart wheelchair to facilitate disabled individuals which can be operated with lesser effort while operating the wheelchair. The proposed wheelchair can be controlled through voice commands which enables the user to control the wheelchair with less effort. This aids the disabled in carrying out daily activities independently within indoor environments. The proposed solution has five modules namely, speech recognition module, obstacle avoidance module, autonomous navigation module, health monitoring module, and central system controller. The wheelchair operates in two modes called manual mode and the autonomous mode. This paper presents a smart wheelchair that makes the disabled individuals' life easier with technology. Further this paper elaborates testing and evaluations carried out to prove the proposed title.