Overview
- Casual and desriptive handbook to robotic wheelchair construction, plus a new method to support wheelchair based person-mobility through collaborative control
- The specifics of experiments at hospitals are described in the book as well and has been tested in a real hospital
- Written by a leading expert in the field
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL, volume 27)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In nowadays aging society, many people require mobility assistance. Sometimes, assistive devices need a certain degree of autonomy when users' disabilities difficult manual control. However, clinicians report that excessive assistance may lead to loss of residual skills and frustration. Shared control focuses on deciding when users need help and providing it. Collaborative control aims at giving just the right amount of help in a transparent, seamless way.
This book presents the collaborative control paradigm. User performance may be indicative of physical/cognitive condition, so it is used to decide how much help is needed. Besides, collaborative control integrates machine and user commands so that people contribute to self-motion at all times.
Collaborative control was extensively tested for 3 years using a robotized wheelchair at a rehabilitation hospital in Rome with volunteer inpatients presenting different disabilities, ranging from mild to severe. We also present a taxonomy of common metrics for wheelchair navigation and tests are evaluated accordingly. Obtained results are coherent both from a quantitative and qualitative point of view.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN)
Book Subtitle: The bare necessities: assisted wheelchair navigation and beyond
Authors: Cristina Urdiales
Series Title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24902-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-24901-3Published: 18 February 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44209-4Published: 17 April 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-24902-0Published: 16 February 2012
Series ISSN: 1868-4394
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 236
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering