Making disabled & handicaped people live like normal people, and do things they would never be able to do with their current physical state, But how??
Locked-in syndrome is the rarest and most severe form of paralysis, where a person loses control of all their muscles except the ones that control their eye movements. So the Whole Exosuit will be controlled by a Glass which will have an eye tracker & Ai. That Ai is essential, as it will have an object detection functionality and will have control over the whole LiDar System, The Image Clarifies what the Ai will see of the depth sensor (LiDar), But where exactly do you use drones in this project?
Drones will be equipped with a LiDar instrument principally consists of a laser, a scanner, and a specialized GPS receiver. Airplanes and helicopters are the most commonly used platforms for acquiring lidar data over broad areas. Two types of lidar are topographic and bathymetric. Topographic lidar typically uses a near-infrared laser to map the land, while bathymetric lidar uses water-penetrating green light to also measure seafloor and riverbed elevations.
Eye trackers are a thing for a long time so we decided that it’s reliable enough to be used in our project as a main mean of input. It will track the eye movement and blinks which our commands are consisted of, with will allow the brain cortex to understand what a person wants to do by looking at it and doing a certain arrangement of blinks.
The brain cortex will just perform like our nervous system as it will control our suit, hydraulics, motors and AI system.
The Life Support ExoSuit
A lot of people suffer from disabilities that prevent them from living their lives as normal people, those people either have to live their lives assisted or with the help of a friend or family member making it inconvenient for both of them; Isn’t there a way to make that process easier?
THE CONCEPT
An Exoskeleton will be used to support and move the whole body with the help of hydraulic cylinders and motors attached to the body with straps; How will it move though?
Brain Cortex It’s the main motherboard which will control our Exosuit (Hydraulics, motors, Ai, EyeTracker & LiDar unit); Ai?? How will that work?
That Ai is essential, as it will have object detection functionality and will have control over the whole LiDar System; How will you control the Ai?
Eye Trackers will track the eye movement and blinks which our commands are consisted of, with will allow the brain cortex to understand what a person wants to do by looking at it and doing a certain arrangement of blinks, then respond with a certain movement with the artificial limbs to do what the person wants to do.
About Positioning??(LiDar)
These light pulses combined with other data recorded by the airborne system generate precise, three-dimensional information About the place.
Okay Okay!! What about power?
According to our “ISEF 2020 Submission” modified Tesla coils will be used to generate a higher electromagnetic field that can generate a network of devices that can exchange power with each other that can achieve what wires could do but better, easier and most importantly in a more elegant way.
Who will benefit? ~1,169,219,811 Suffer from some kind of disability and ~153,742,569 of them experience significant disabilities which sums up to 15% Of The Human Population.
Our Goal is to make disabled & handicaped people live like normal people, and do things they would never be able to do with their current physical state, due to: (1) Inability of some people to move some of their own limbs due to injury, hereditary or other causes. (2) Inability of some people to live their life without the help of others. (3) Inability to experience freedom in their lives as they are stuck in their wheelchairs. (4) Ignoring the idea of using wireless electricity in some fields that definitely would need it.
We will create a system using TensorFlow that will merge the LiDar technology with the Ai to know what the person using the suit is seeing and will allow the users to interpret much more commands that he can give to the suit, such as “Drink water” , “Eat this slice of pizza” and much more but currently the system is still an idea as the research team is still learning the basics of “TensorFlow” & “Python” the programing language that’s used in the making of Ai.
Carbon fiber rods will be used to mimic the bones of the human skeleton which we will call “primary skeleton” and form which we will call “secondary skeleton”. The Secondary skeleton will be the main structure and support for the Life Support ExoSuit.
CONCLUSION
As in the “Locked-in syndrome” the rarest and most severe form of paralysis, where a person loses control of all their muscles except the ones that control their eye movements. So we came up with the idea of using smart glasses to take in input for our system which will allow anyone in the world to control our Exosuit.
Reasons to choose Carbon Fiber Rods:
Strength – Carbon materials are tough and strong. They’re durable and hard wearing, manufacture parts from carbon and you know they are going to last.
Weight – Despite its strength carbon fibre is actually very light. The strength to weight ratio of carbon is amazing. Carbon is much lighter than steel and considerably lighter than aluminium so it’s a great choice if you are manufacturing something and want to keep the weight down.
Stress resistance – Parts made from Carbon Fibre are less prone to wear and tear. Carbon doesn’t suffer from fatigue, it won’t start to rot or degrade in poor conditions it’s a long lasting and hard wearing material.
Corrosion resistance – Carbon fibre is durable in corrosive environments too. The composite is good to use in chemically-infused sectors and settings where other materials are prone to corrosion.
Flexibility – Manufacturing with carbon is a pleasure. It’s great for complex shapes and intricate patterns, carbon is a flexible material that’s easy to form into a diverse range of goods.
Thermal friendly – Carbon fibre materials are known for their thermal expansion properties, they easily cope with thermal stress.
Dampen energy – Carbon dampens surrounding energy as well, it copes well with vibration and other energy forces.
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