• DocumentCode
    2336378
  • Title

    Elevator available voice activated wheelchair

  • Author

    Murai, Akira ; Mizuguchi, Masaharu ; Saitoh, Takeshi ; Osaki, Tomoyuki ; Konishi, Ryosuke

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. & Electron., Tottori Univ., Tottori, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 2 2009
  • Firstpage
    730
  • Lastpage
    735
  • Abstract
    This paper develops a new functional voice activated wheelchair. Our system has two major functions. The first function is the collision avoidance function that the wheelchair avoids the wall and obstacle without voice command by using the sensor information. This function has three autonomous movements of the stop movement, avoidance movement and deceleration movement. The second function is the robust elevator entry/exit function which can work smoothly in a variety of situations. Various experiments were carried out and evaluate the proposed system with several conditions. As the result, our system ran indoor environment safely. Furthermore, our system was possible to entry/exit the elevator, and move between floors.
  • Keywords
    collision avoidance; handicapped aids; mobile robots; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; wheelchairs; autonomous movements; avoidance movement; collision avoidance function; deceleration movement; robust elevator entry/exit function; sensor information; stop movement; voice activated wheelchair; Collision avoidance; Control systems; Electromyography; Electrooculography; Elevators; Floors; Infrared sensors; Sensor systems; Speech recognition; Wheelchairs;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009. RO-MAN 2009. The 18th IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Toyama
  • ISSN
    1944-9445
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5081-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1944-9445
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326329
  • Filename
    5326329