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Citation |
Alshraideh M, Mahafzah BA, Al-Sharaeh S, Hawamdeh ZM. Journal of experimental and theoretical artificial intelligence 2015; 27(4): 471-482. |
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(Copyright © 2015) |
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Abstract |
Powered wheelchairs offer a means of independent mobility for older adults and patients who are unable to walk and cannot propel a manual wheelchair. One concern is these adults and patients are unable to drive a powered wheelchair safely or properly. Intelligent wheelchairs offer an approach to address this problem by self-controlling the movement and direction of the wheelchair without patients and older adult's intervention. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a robotic intelligent wheelchair system (RIWS) based on obstacle avoidance and navigation functions that allow patients to navigate to scheduled outpatient appointments in a hospital safely and accurately. Experimental results show that all scheduled destinations were successfully reached by our RIWS. 2014 Taylor and Francis. Language: en |
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Keywords |
Intelligent robots; Robotics; Wheelchairs; Navigation; Collision avoidance; Motion planning; Patient treatment; Robot programming |