Intelligent wheelchairs allow individuals to move more freely, safely, and facilitate users'
interaction with the wheelchair. This paper presents the results focused on the study and …

Since the demographics of population, with respect to age, are continuously changing,
politicians and scientists start to pay more attention to the needs of senior individuals …

With the rising concern about the needs of people with physical disabilities and with the
aging of the population there is a major concern of creating electronic devices that may …

The purpose of this chapter is twofold: on one hand, it aims at defining a clear framework for
the design and implementation of autonomous wheelchairs, highlighting the main …

Nowadays more than 700 million persons around the world have some kind of disability or
handicap. During the last decades the elderly population in most of the European countries …

The independence and autonomy of both elderly and disabled people has been a growing
concern of today's society. Therefore, wheelchairs have proven to be fundamental for the …

This article focuses on evaluating the usability of an intelligent wheelchair (IW) in both real
and simulated environments. The wheelchair is controlled at a high-level by a flexible …

As world population keeps growing older, the number of persons with mobility difficulties
increases. To face this problem, the development of intelligent wheelchairs seems a viable …

With the rising concern about the needs of people with physical disabilities and with the
aging of the population there is a major concern of creating electronic devices that may …

With the rising concern about the needs of people with physical disabilities and with the
aging of the population there is a major concern of creating electronic devices that may …