Concept and design of the intellwheels platform for developing intelligent wheelchairs

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2009

Autores

moreira, ap (Autor) FEUP; reis, lp (Autor) FEUP; braga, ram (Autor) Outra; petry, m (Autor) Outra

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Páginas: 191-203

5th International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics, ICINCO 2008

Funchal, Madeira, 11 May 2008 through 15 May 2008

Indexação

ISI Proceedings

ISI Web of Knowledge

Scopus - 36 Citações

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-007-YF6

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00271-7_14

Abstract (EN): Many people with severe disabilities find it difficult or even impossible to use traditional powered wheelchairs independently by manually controlling these electrical devices. Intelligent wheelchairs are a very good solution to assist severely handicapped people who are unable to operate classical electrical wheelchair by themselves in their daily activities. This paper describes a development platform for intelligent wheelchairs called IntellWheels. The intelligent system developed may be added to commercial powered wheelchairs with minimal modifications in a very straightforward manner. The paper describes the concept and design of the platform, including the hardware and software, multimodal input interface and the intelligent wheelchair prototype developed to validate the approach. Preliminary results concerning automatic movement of the IntellWheels prototype are also described showing the autonomous movement capabilities of the prototype. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 13