Automation in Automobiles: Power Seat

The current seat adjustment mechanism in automobiles is quite tedious and outdated and has its toll on the body of the person while adjusting the seat to his/her comfortable position. Every person has his/her comfortable seat position, so every time a person sits in an automobile, adjustment of the seat has to be done according to the comfort of the individual, this is tiresome and at times annoying. This paper deals with automating the seat of an automobile through the use of a microcontroller and image processing toolkit of Matlab thereby reducing manual effort in adjusting the seat. The adjustment of the seat can be done horizontally, vertically as well as the inclination of the seat can be changed by controlling the direction of rotation and speed of the motors provided in the seat. The parameters of the comfortable position for different individuals are stored in the database and the seat is adjusted to a person´s comfortable position by using face recognition algorithm which is used to link the parameters of a person´s comfortable position stored in the database to his/her face.