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Comparison of Different Powered-wheelchair Control Modes for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments

PLASCENCIA Alfredo C., CALTENCO Héctor and BERAN Vítězslav. Comparison of Different Powered-wheelchair Control Modes for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments. In: ICINCO 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Vienna: IEEE Computer Society, 2014, pp. 353-359. ISBN 978-989-758-040-6. Available from: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7049621
Czech title
Srovnání různých módů řízení motorizovaného invalidního vozíku pro osoby s těžkými motorickými poruchami
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
Plascencia Alfredo C., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
Caltenco Héctor (LU)
Beran Vítězslav, doc. Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM FIT BUT)
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Keywords

Shared Control, Autonomous Wheelchair System

Abstract

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.)

Annotation

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.)

Published
2014
Pages
353-359
Proceedings
ICINCO 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
Conference
11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vídeň, Rakousko, AT
ISBN
978-989-758-040-6
Publisher
IEEE Computer Society
Place
Vienna, AT
DOI
10.5220/0005026403530359
EID Scopus
2-s2.0-84910076985
BibTeX 
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB11157,
   author = "C. Alfredo Plascencia and H\'{e}ctor Caltenco and V\'{i}t\v{e}zslav Beran",
   title = "Comparison of Different Powered-wheelchair Control Modes for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments",
   pages = "353--359",
   booktitle = "ICINCO 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics",
   year = 2014,
   location = "Vienna, AT",
   publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
   ISBN = "978-989-758-040-6",
   doi = "10.5220/0005026403530359",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11157"
}
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