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Wheelchair-Based System Adapted to Disabled People with Very Low Mobility

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This paper presents a guidance system for wheelchairs, applied to severe motor disabilities, compatible with the commercial control systems. This allows adapting the interfaces developed for electric wheelchairs in common use, achieving a low cost of implementation. Several different interfaces adapted to fit the residual capabilities of various types of physical disabilities have been developed. The necessary electronic equipment has been built, the microcontroller’s software has been programmed and the whole system has been tested to verify its operation. This equipment will replace conventional joystick function in a wheelchair. The interfaces are assembled on a commercial wheelchair and the performance of the whole system has been tested with some of the interfaces in control subjects. The tests were performed using a suitable protocol for this type of application. The ability of users to perform a predefined task and their ability to learn was measured, according to the protocol. Promising results were obtained in the execution of the test.

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  1. Laboratory of Electronics and Bioengineering, College of Telecommunications, University of Valladolid, Paseo Belén, 15, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    Albano Carrera, Alonso A. Alonso & Ramón de la Rosa Steinz

  2. Array Processing Group, College of Telecommunications, University of Valladolid, Paseo Belén, 15, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    María I. Jiménez Gómez & Lara del Val

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho , Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  2. Department of Computer Science , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , Celestijnenlaan 200A, 02.152, B-3001, Heverlee, Belgium

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  3. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

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Carrera, A., Alonso, A.A., de la Rosa Steinz, R., Gómez, M.I.J., del Val, L. (2011). Wheelchair-Based System Adapted to Disabled People with Very Low Mobility. In: Novais, P., Preuveneers, D., Corchado, J.M. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19937-0_3

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