3 accepted papers
Assistive devices are to be designed with the objective of use in daily-life as well as broad adoption by end users. In this context, it is necessary to tackle usability challenges by properly detecting and acting in accordance to user intents while minimizing the device installation complexity as w…
This paper presents a generic power wheelchair dynamic model. As a first contribution, this paper proposes to use a generic model composed of a geometric model and a lumped model in order to be compliant with a wide range of existing commercially available wheelchairs. In this model, a set of essent…
Motor or visual impairments may prevent a user from steering a wheelchair effectively in indoor environments. In such cases, joystick jerks arising from uncontrolled motions may lead to collisions with obstacles. We here propose a perceptive shared control system that progressively corrects the traj…