Wheel chair mini project

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Running Head : WHEEL CHAIR MINI PROJECT

Wheel Chair Mini Project

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Wheel Chair Mini Project

Introduction and Emergence of Wheel Chair Mini Project

The commonly offered ordinary wheel chairs do not utilize any techniques of automation or artificial intelligence to help out the consumer . This is a significant disadvantage to the relentlessly disabled persons Extensive research work carried out in this regard must pick up the pace to meet the increasing necessitation for

the Wheel Chair Mini Project

In 2000 , there were an estimated 1 .7 million full-time wheelchair bound Americans . Approximately 55 of them were over the age of 65 . With an increasing aging

population and life expectancy , these numbers will only grow in the next twenty years . As such , there will be a dramatic need for assistive technology that does not rely

exclusively on human caretakers for operation

While the use of powered wheel chairs has become common-place for many handicapped people , the severely handicapped do not have many options Their limited dexterity usually means that a caretaker must be present at

all times to ensure that the occupant is not injured or damage anything in the environment

The current state of the art in robotics can help this situation by augmenting the wheel chair user 's senses and reaction time . This will require multiple aspects of artificial intelligence , vision processing and sensor fusion to name a few (Micire 2006

Design

Earlier mobility-enhancing robotic tools

The progress of a robotically amplified walker poses uncommon confronts not seen in either more tightly or loosely coupled assistive mobility systems . Some of them are peculiar to the elderly users who constitute the majority of the user population and may be visually or cognitively impaired in addition to having impaired mobility and /or balance . Some others are specific to the role and function of the device

Wheelchair systems , such as NavChair , SIAMO , or the Bremen Autonomous Wheelchair , focus on obstacle avoidance and user modeling , modular design and versatility , or robust obstacle avoidance plus the refinement of the shared control model , among other goals . In contrast to walkers or canes , the user interface for assistive wheelchairs generally relies on a joystick or similar device . The user 's intended direction is interpreted as explicit , accurate , and discrete based on the signal from this device , making the design of a shared control paradigm based on discrete device and user modes much easier , for a comprehensive review of robotically enhanced wheelchair developments

Walker-based systems must be more concerned with balance and gentle intuitive shared control than wheelchair-based systems . Walker users are not simply riding a mobile robot platform and can be seriously injured by the system 's failure to consider this . Yet the guidance supplied by a robotic walker cannot be as laissez-faire as that of

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Borenstein Ulrich 's GuideCane or similar devices engineered for those who have limited sight but are otherwise physically and cognitively...