Experimentations with Handicapped Users on the Adaptation of the Wheelchair Control

Due to specific pathologies, a part of the handicapped population does not have a correct adaptation of his wheelchair command and sometimes this adaptation is never found. This article presents a study about an automatic autoadaptation of the technical aid behavior with regard to the user characteristics. Different experiments are realized with two handicapped person on a robotic wheelchair. The obtained results present the possibilities of this adaptation on an electric wheelchair in order to take into account heavy difficulties of handicapped person commands (like cerebral motor infirmity, Sclerosis)