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Research Article Volume 10 Issue No.5

Voice Controlled Car

Lalit Kumar1, Abhishek Kumar2, Aniket Ghare3, Gulshan Kumar4
Assistant Professor1, B. Tech Student2, 3, 4
Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering
MIT School of Engineering, Pune, India

Abstract:
Voice Controlled CAR is a mobile robot whose movement can be controlled by the commander by giving specific voice commands.
The speech is received by a microphone and processed by the Bluetooth module (hc- Speech recognition is a technology where the
system understands the words given through speech. 05). When a command for the robot is recognized, then Bluetooth module sends
a command message to the Arduino. The Arduino analyses the message and takes appropriate actions. The RF transmitter of the
Bluetooth can take either switch press or voice commands which are converted to encoded digital data for the advantage of adequate
range (up to 100 meters) from the robot. The receiver decodes the data before feeding it to another microcontroller to drive DC motors
via motor driver IC for necessary work. This technology has an advantage over long communication range as compared to RF
technology. Further the project can be developed using IoT technology where a user can control the robot from any corner of the
world. The goal of this project is to introduce hearing AI sensor and also the speech recognition to the mobile robot such that it is
capable to interact with human through Spoken Natural Language (NL).

Keyword: Speech Recognition, Robot, Microcontroller, Arduino, Bluetooth, Android.

1. INTRODUCTION
In today’s era, smart phones are becoming more powerful with
reinforced processors, larger storage capacities, richer
entertainment function and more communication methods.
When we say voice control, the first term to be considered is
Speech Recognition i.e. making the system to understand human
voice. Speech recognition is a technology where the system
understands the words given through speech. Speech is an ideal
method for robotic control and communication. The speech
recognition circuit we will outline, functions independently from
the robot’s main intelligence. Voice controlled robot is a mobile
robot which is control by some specified voice commands. The
mobile application is capable of identifying five commands
which are “Stop”,” Forward”,”Back”,”Left”,”Right”. In this
embedded system, we make a robotic car which we can control
using voice through a mobile application. Application listens
and sends the instruction to the Arduino using Bluetooth and
then Arduino performs the specified operations using voice
recognition application which is not 100% accurate. The
application is sensitive to the surrounding noises. It sometimes
misinterprets the voice commands given to the robot. But you
can design your own application which can ignore the
surroundings and can receive your own voice only.
Transmitter
On the Transmitter section, commands are given to the Mobile
Application through the micro-phone of the mobile handset.
This mobile handset is connected to the moving vehicle via
Bluetooth module. The mobile application used, is programmed
in such a way that the voice commands given to the handset are
received by the micro-phone and these analog voice commands
are converted to digital word sequences (A to D conversion).
These stored sequences are than transmitted to the robot via
Bluetooth transceiver module and are sent to the transceiver
controller (MAX 232).
Receiver
MAX 232 transceiver is used to decode the received signal and
for serial communication with the Bluetooth module. The
controller compares these digital signals with the stored
programme commands in it and convert them into voice strings.
The voice strings are then used to run the servo motors for the
desired interval of time.
2. PROBLEM DEFINITION
The main objective of the project is to control the robotic vehicle
in a desired position. Also the main objective of the project is to
control the robot by the voice or push buttons. Human Robotic
Interaction is achieve. The goal of voice controlled Robot is to
listen and act on the commands received from the user. The
proposed system consist of two blocks: transmitter and receiver
block and a battery for the power source. Using this application
we can control the robotic vehicle by using personal phone. The
project is designed to control a robotic vehicle by voice
commands and manual control for remote operation.
3. METHODOLOGY
1. Robot Control Design Using Android Smartphone[1,2] The
purpose of this paper is to provide powerful computational
android platforms with simpler robots hardware architecture.
This paper describes how to control a robot using mobile
through Bluetooth communication, some features about
Bluetooth technology, components of the mobile and robot. It
present a review of robots controlled by mobile phone via
moving the robot upward, backward, left and right side by the
android application such as Arduino, Bluetooth.
2. Smart Phone Controlled Robot Using ATMEGA328
Microcontroller [3]In this paper have designed a robot that can
be controlled using an application running on an android phone.

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It sends control command via Bluetooth which has certain
features like controlling the speed of the motor, sensing and
sharing the information with phone about the direction and
distance of the robot from the nearest obstacle.
3. Android Mobile Phone Controlled Bluetooth Robot Using
8051 Microcontroller [4,5] A robot is usually an electro-
mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic
programming. Many robots have been built for manufacturing
purpose and can be found in factories around the world. This
paper develop the remote buttons in the android app which
control the robot motion with them. And in which Bluetooth
communication is use to interface controller and android.
Controller is interfaced to the Bluetooth module though UART
protocol.
4. BLOCK DIAGRAM
Bluetooth module
ARDUINO
ARDUINO
Hc-05
UNO
UNO
Motor driver
Motor driver
Motor driver
Motor driver
5. SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
The overall system design consists of following modules: (a)
Hardware Connection. (b) Application Software (c) User Access
(d) Voice Recognition (e) Preprocessing (f) Prediction of
Output. First of all the system starts with the
Dc motor
Dc motor
Dc motor
Dc motor
Hardware Connection between the robot and the smart phone
which is attach with the robot by using the Bluetooth
Connectivity Connection. Then after the connection is establish
the user will start the application program which is installed in
the server computer or phone. A smart phone Android operated
robot. Now here is a simple to control your robot using
Bluetooth module and Arduino uno with your android
Smartphone device. The controlling devices of the whole system
is Arduino. Bluetooth module, DC motors are interfaced to the
arduino. The data receive by the Bluetooth module from android
smart phone is fed as input to the arduino. The controller acts
accordingly on the DC motor of the robot. Voice Controlled Car
(VCC) is a mobile robot whose motions can be controlled by the
user by giving specific voice commands. The speech is received
by a microphone and processed by the voice module. When a
command for the robot is recognized, then voice module sends a
command message to the CAR. The arduino analyzes the
message and takes appropriate actions. The objective is to
design a walking car which is controlled by DC motors. using
voice command or manual command. Also the car contain smart
phone attach with it. The smart phone will capture the video in
front of robot.
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6. SYSTEM EVALUATION
Advantages
• The robot is small in size, so space required for it is small
• We can access the robot from the distance of meters as we are
using Wifi for the connection between robot and the server PC.
• As we are using smart phone which is attach to the robot so it
will capture video which will be used for security.
• Cost of system is low as we are using smart phone which is
nearby available to everyone.
Disadvantages
• Even the best speech recognition systems sometimes make
errors. If there is noise or some other sound in the room the
number of errors will increase.
• Speech Recognition works best if the microphone is close to
the user will tend to increase the number of errors.
• In Speech recognition system, there is a possibility of
unauthorized usage. Since this doesnt depends upon which
person is speaking.
Applications
• The robot is useful in places where humans find difficult to
reach but human voice reaches. E.g. in fire situations, in highly
toxic areas.
• It is the one of the important stage of Humanoid robots.
• Command and control of appliances and equipment
• Telephone assistance systems
• The robot can be used for surveillance or reconnaissance.
7. RESULTS
The proposed system is basically based on Voice Controlled
Robotic Vehicle helps to control robot through voice commands
received via android application. The Voice Controlled Vehicle
is controlled through voice commands given by the user who is
operating the project. These voice command needs to be given
through an android app which is installed on the users android
mobile. Speech recognition is done within the android app and
then a respective command is sent to the voice controlled robot
vehicle. Arduino fitted on the Vehicle decodes these commands
and gives an appropriate command to the motors connected to
the vehicle. A. Fixed Commands There are 5 fixed commands
which can be used to control basic robot actions: 1) Up: It is the
command to move the robot straight forward unless a new
command is sent. 2) Down: It is the command to move the
robot straight backward unless a new command is sent. 3) Right:
It is the command which turns the robot right unless a new
command is sent. 4) Left: It is the command which turns the
robot left unless a new command is sent. 5) Stop: It is the
command which stop the robot. B. Procedure Here are the steps
for how to use android application to control the robotic vehicle.
1) Download the application “BT VOICE CONTROL FOR
ARDUINO” from Google play store and install it. 2) First make
sure your HC-05 Bluetooth module is paired with your mobile.
3) Check once you get started with the application, the Bluetooth
of the mobile is automatically enabled. 4) Click on “connect
robot” option present in options menu. 5) Now select HC-05 to
get paired with the module. After pairing it is ready to use. 6)
Now click on the “MIC” icon and speak or instruct the robot
verbal. 7) When you speak “left” your speech gets recognized
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and converted into text. That text is transferred to robot through
Bluetooth. 8) The robot receives the string, decodes it and
compares it with the Instructions that are described in the
program and moves the robot in forward direction. 9) The same
in the case of Up, Left, Right, down Stop. 10) As per command
given from android app, motor is drive in up, down, left,
rightand stop in this way.

8. CONCLUSIONS

The integration of voice recognition and navigation system into

robotic vehicle which helps for disabled people. This speech
control system, though quite simple, shows the ability to apply
speech recognition techniques to the control application. Our
robot can understand control Commands spoken in a natural
way, and carry out action. The method is proved for real- time
operation. Simply in this system an android application is used
to recognize human voice and is converted to text, text is further
processed and used to control robotic movements.

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