SMART GLOVE FOR TRANSLATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE INTO

SPEECH FOR HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Project Members
Farhan Nawaz..12PWELE4111
Muhammad Faisal Amin. 12PWELE4149
Mudasser Farooqi 12PWELE4154
Waleed Abubakar .12PWELE4144

Project Supervisor
PROF DR.SYED WAQAR SHAH
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar.
Introduction

Hand gestures are used for different purposes in our daily life

Traffic Warden using An Army Officer using Mute people uses hand
hand gestures for hand gesture for gesture as sign language
controlling the traffic commanding for communicating
Introduction (Contd.)

Often our hands are involved in communicating

with electronic devices.
For example in case of computers, keyboard &
other input devices, which are operated by hands.
Introduction (Contd.)

When we get tired or frustrated, mostly we make

hand gestures to tell electronic devices what do
we want.
Introduction (Contd.)

We want to, but electronic devices dont understand.

Because they do not have brain to understand our hand
gestures.
What & How to Do?
Question arises
How to make Man to Machine Communication in a Natural Way?
How to make devices understand our hand gestures?
Idea of Sensorized Glove

Idea of a Glove appeared.

The glove can be used to give our hand gestures some
technical meanings.
First ever such glove was developed in 1977 by Thomas.
Smart Glove

It can be used to control different devices at

the hint of our gestures.
Hence making the interaction with devices in a
natural way.
Can be used for different purposes like
o Control of various devices.
o Sign Language translation.
o Controller for E-Gamings.
o Interacting with Robots.
Translation of sign language into
speech
This project is about smart glove which will help hearing impaired
people to communicate with normal human beings more easily.
Our project is based on this newly adopted technology whereby the
user will wear smart glove to communicate by hand gestures.
What does it do?
It records data related to a persons hand gestures.
Processes that data.
Transmit the commands related to hand gestures through Bluetooth.
Consists of two Units
Transmitting Unit (Glove)
Receiving Unit (smart phone)
Block Diagram

Block diagram of Transmitting unit is given below:

Arduino Bluetooth
Flex Sensors
(-Controller) Module

Hand
Gesture
(Input) Accelerometer
Block Diagram (Contd.)

Block diagram of Receiving unit is given below:

Transmitting Unit

Transmitting unit consists of a Glove having

Flex sensors
Accelerometer
Arduino Nano
Bluetooth Module
Battery
Transmitting Unit (Contd.)
Flex Sensor
Variable Resistor
Resistance changes as a function of angle of
bend
Used in a voltage divider circuit so that
Arduino can sense it.
Transmitting Unit (Contd.)
Accelerometer
Consists of Variable Capacitors
Gives the orientation of device to which it is attached
Influenced by the Gravitation Acceleration
Voltage Increases on axis which is pulled by g
ADXL 335 model is used in our project
Transmitting Unit (Contd.)
Arduino Nano
Small sized, low power Board for Programming Micro-Controller.
Used to process the gestures, for making useful information
Specifications
o Atmel Atmega328 Micro-Controller is used
o 5v Operating Voltage
o 8 Analog Pins.
o 14 Digital Input/output Pins
Transmitting Unit (Contd.)
Bluetooth Module
Bluetooth Module is used to transmit the commands wirelessly to
the remote device, in our project Car.
HC-06 Model is used
Range of 10 meters.
Transmitting Unit (Contd.)
Battery
It provides the power to the glove circuit.
9v Battery is used in the project.
Flow Chart
Transmitting Unit:
Flow Chart
Receiving Unit:
Circuit Diagram
Transmitting Unit:
Applications of Glove Based system

It is used for virtual architecture.

To control the mobility of robot.
Gloves can be used as console for games.
As alternates of motion analyses system
Thank You