A Methodology for Creating an Adapted Command Language for Driving an Intelligent Wheelchair

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2015

Authors

Faria, BM (Author) Other; reis, lp (Author) REIT; lau, n (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Vol. 80

Pages: 609-623

ISSN: 0921-0296

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00G-SZQ

DOI: 10.1007/s10846-015-0194-2

Abstract (EN): Intelligent wheelchairs (IW) are technologies that can increase the autonomy and independence of elderly people and patients suffering from some kind of disability. Nowadays the intelligent wheelchairs and the human-machine studies are very active research areas. This paper presents a methodology and a Data Analysis System (DAS) that provides an adapted command language to an user of the IW. This command language is a set of input sequences that can be created using inputs from an input device or a combination of the inputs available in a multimodal interface. The results show that there are statistical evidences to affirm that the mean of the evaluation of the DAS generated command language is higher than the mean of the evaluation of the command language recommended by the health specialist (p value = 0.002) with a sample of 11 cerebral palsy users. This work demonstrates that it is possible to adapt an intelligent wheelchair interface to the user even when the users present heterogeneous and severe physical constraints.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 15