A versatile and safe mobility assistant.

A versatile and safe mobility assistant.

The Bremen autonomous wheelchair implements obstacle avoidance plus driving and routing assistance in a shared-control system. This article shows how the tasks of reliably detecting obstacles in the environment and safely avoiding these obstructions are solved

Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE Robotics and automation magazine 8, 1 (2001).
Main Author: Lankenau, A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bremen.
Autonomous wheelchair.
Handicapped aids.
Mobility assistant.
Obstacle avoidance.
Routing assistance.
Shared-control system.
Sonar.
Speed control.