Name of the College and Affiliating University: Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore (Autonomous Institution) Affiliated to Anna University

Chennai. Names of the Student Team Members along with id / roll numbers, course, department and semester information: A. Aravindan (10BEC008) B.V.Gajendrabangaru(10BEC031) S.Mohanraj(10BEC065) Course Department Semester Email : : : : B.E. ECE VII a.aravind1136@gamil.com

Name of the Faculty Advisor, Department and designation: M.Alagumeenaakshi, Assistant Professor (SRG), ECE Mobile: 9443368484 Email: alagumeenaakshi.m.ece@kct.ac.in Project Title: Project Domain: Third Eye Physical

Has a similar project been carried out in your college/elsewhere: No CERTIFICATE This is to certify that Mr. A. Aravindan, B.V. Gajendrabangaru, S. Mohanraj is a bonafide final year student of U.G. Engineering courses of our college and it is also certified that two copies of utilization certificate and final report along with seminar paper will be sent to the council after completion of the project by the end of April 2014.

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THIRD EYE

ABSTRACT: In the current scenario the visually challenged people face difficulties in moving from one place to another. The only way for them is to seek the help of the other persons, cane or a dog. In order to address this problem the project THIRD EYE is proposed. The project THIRD EYE is an ultrasonic mobility aid for visually challenged people, which enables more informed, confident and efficient pedestrian travel.The third eye is Obstacles in the path are detected by the ultrasonic sensors and communicated via gentle vibrations. Added the approximate distance of the obstacle will be communicated via voice through earphones. The device is intended as a secondary mobility device to complement the traditional long cane or guide dog. KEYWORDS: Ultrasonic module, microcontroller, codec IC, speaker, coil motor vibrators.

OBJECTIVE: The main objective of the project is to guide visually challenged persons via vibrations and approximate distance is communicated to them through the earphones.
METHODOLOGY:

The Ultrasonic waves gets reflected back, when a visually challenged person encounters an obstacle in his path, the reflected signal is captured by the receiver and its given to the microcontroller for distance calculation via

interfacing circuits. Based on the distance calculated the vibrators are made to vibrate at different intensity. Mean while the calculated distance which is in digital form is fed to a vocoder IC which in turn produces a voice and is communicated to the visually challenged via earphones

WORK PLAN:

In the project the ultrasonic module has a transmitter and receiver unit, which is placed in the machine. The transmitter unit transmits the ultrasound signal produced through an oscillator circuit of 40 KHz. The ultrasonic transmitter is consists of two inverted buffer, which is connected in parallel. Depending on the frequency the buffer on and off time is varied. Depending on this variation ultrasonic wave is generated and transmitted. Then the ultrasonic wave hits the nearest target (obstacle) and reflects from the target. The ultrasonic receiver will receive the reflected wave from the target. Depending upon the distance of the object, the received wave time is varied. Then the received signal is given to amplifier unit in order to amplify the received signal. The amplified signal is in the form of AC. So the signal is given to signal conditioning unit which consists of precision rectifier and comparator. Here the microcontroller is the flash type Reprogrammable microcontroller in which distance formula already programmed in

Microcontroller. Then the signal from SCU is fed to microcontroller where the processing takes place. A part of output of the controller is given to the vibrator and the other part is given to the Codec IC. The input to the codec IC is digital and output is analog, which inturn plays the audio output in the ear phone. Budget: Ultrasonic Sensor Microcontroller IC PCB Printing Codec IC Earphone, Coil Motor Battery Spectacles and other components Total 1500/600/700/4000/1000/1000/1200/10200/-