Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics, 1997. ISIE '97., Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Guimaraes
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3936-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISIE.1997.648641
