Over the last decade, the use of robots in production and daily life has increased. With
increasingly complex tasks and interaction in different environments including humans …

This paper presents an intelligent decision-making agent to assist wheelchair users in their
daily navigation activities. Several navigational techniques have been successfully …

In todays aging society, many people require mobility assistance, that can be provided by
robotized assistive wheelchairs with a certain degree of autonomy when manual control is …

To date, self-driving experimental wheelchair technologies have been either inexpensive or
robust, but not both. Yet, in order to achieve real-world acceptance, both qualities are …

There are several ways to write by gaze. In a typical setup, gaze direction is used to point
and dwell-select letters on an on-screen keyboard. Alternatively, if the person cannot fixate …

A key issue in autonomy assistance is mobility, as mobility impairment has proven to cause
a downward trend in quality of life. Assistive devices mostly differ on user interfaces, sensory …

To support safe self-movement of the disabled and the aged, we developed an electric
wheelchair that realizes the functions of detecting both the potential hazards in a moving …

Various mobility assistants have been developed to enable the Rolland wheelchair and
iWalker walker to behave intelligently in order to compensate for diminishing physical and …

This paper makes a contribution to the field of autonomous vehicles, especially for use on
assistive wheelchairs. The aim of our work consists in the development of a low-cost …

Within this work, we demonstrate the applicability of a three degrees of freedom orientation
tracker as suitable controlling equipment for an autonomous wheelchair. It is shown that a …