Autonomous wheelchair for disabled people

Author

Pires, G. ; Honório, N. ; Lopes, C. ; Nunes, U. ; Almeida, A.T.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Syst. & Robotics, Coimbra Univ., Portugal

fYear

1997

Firstpage

797

Abstract

This paper describes the RobChair assistive navigation system. The RobChair project was conceived with the aim to assist disabled people in the difficult task of manoeuvring a powered wheelchair. This paper describes the overall hardware and software architecture including the communication system, a friendly graphical user interface which also works as a simulator and introduces a natural human-machine interface. The system´s architecture follows a behaviour-based control architecture

Keywords

computerised navigation; electric vehicles; graphical user interfaces; handicapped aids; mobile robots; motion control; natural language interfaces; path planning; Autonomous wheelchair; RobChair assistive navigation system; behaviour-based control architecture; communication system; disabled people; graphical user interface; hardware architecture; natural human-machine interface; powered wheelchair; software architecture; Communication system control; Computer architecture; Hardware; Infrared sensors; Mobile robots; Navigation; Software architecture; Wheelchairs; Wheels; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 1997. ISIE '97., Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Guimaraes

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3936-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.1997.648641

Filename

648641