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

Alfredo Chávez, Héctor Caltenco, Vítězslav Beran

2014

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.

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Chávez A., Caltenco H. and Beran V. (2014). Comparison of Different Powered-wheelchair Control Modes for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-758-040-6, pages 353-359. DOI: 10.5220/0005026403530359


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@conference{icinco14,
author={Alfredo Chávez and Héctor Caltenco and Vítězslav Beran},
title={Comparison of Different Powered-wheelchair Control Modes for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2014},
pages={353-359},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005026403530359},
isbn={978-989-758-040-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - Comparison of Different Powered-wheelchair Control Modes for Individuals with Severe Motor Impairments
SN - 978-989-758-040-6
AU - Chávez A.
AU - Caltenco H.
AU - Beran V.
PY - 2014
SP - 353
EP - 359
DO - 10.5220/0005026403530359