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Comparison of different powered-wheelchair control modes for individuals with severe motor impairments

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Summary, in English

This paper presents the preliminary evaluation of different powered-wheelchair control modes for individuals with severe motor impediments. To this end, a C400 Permobil wheelchair has been updated with a control command communication interface and equipped with a scanning laser sensor to carry out the automation algorithms that are part of the robot operating system framework. A pilot test was performed with three different modalities; hand-joystick mode, tongue-joystick mode and autonomous mode. The results of the tests have proven the feasibility of using a power wheelchair either autonomously or controlled by users interchangeably in order to continue the development towards a better user/wheelchair shared-control paradigm.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

353-359

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics

Volume

02

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Topic

  • Medical Engineering

Keywords

  • Tongue
  • Wheelchairs
  • Autonomous Wheelchair System
  • Shared Control
  • Navigation
  • Robot sensing systems
  • Control systems
  • Laser modes
  • Computers

Conference name

Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2014 11th International Conference on

Conference date

0001-01-02

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-989-758-040-6