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
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