An intelligent powered wheelchair to enable mobility of cognitively impaired older adults: An anticollision system

Title An intelligent powered wheelchair to enable mobility of cognitively impaired older adults: An anticollision system
Author
Alex Mihailidis
Pantelis Elinas
Jennifer Boger
Jesse Hoey
Keywords
dementia
infrared sensors
injuries
intelligent robots
medical services
object detection
prototypes
safety
wheelchairs
Abstract

Older adults with cognitive impairments are generally prohibited from using powered wheelchairs, because of the high risk of collisions with people and objects. This paper describes and presents the preliminary results of a system that uses an infrared sensor to provide anticollision and a prompting system for a powered wheelchair that helps guide the user safely past obstacles. Trials with the prototyped system detected collisions and stopped the chair in 95% of trials with an object and generated no false alarms.
Year of Publication
2007
Journal
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Volume
15
Start Page
136
Date Published
03/2007
ISSN Number
1558-0210
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSRE.2007.891385
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