Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN) (e-bog) af Urdiales, Cristina
Urdiales, Cristina (forfatter)

Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN) e-bog

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In nowadays aging society, many people require mobility assistance. Sometimes, assistive devices need a certain degree of autonomy when users' disabilities difficult manual control. However, clinicians report that excessive assistance may lead to loss of residual skills and frustration. Shared control focuses on deciding when users need help and providing it. Collaborative control aims at givin...
E-bog 1240,73 DKK
Forfattere Urdiales, Cristina (forfatter)
Forlag Springer
Udgivet 16 februar 2012
Genrer Biomedical engineering
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9783642249020
In nowadays aging society, many people require mobility assistance. Sometimes, assistive devices need a certain degree of autonomy when users' disabilities difficult manual control. However, clinicians report that excessive assistance may lead to loss of residual skills and frustration. Shared control focuses on deciding when users need help and providing it. Collaborative control aims at giving just the right amount of help in a transparent, seamless way. This book presents the collaborative control paradigm. User performance may be indicative of physical/cognitive condition, so it is used to decide how much help is needed. Besides, collaborative control integrates machine and user commands so that people contribute to self-motion at all times.Collaborative control was extensively tested for 3 years using a robotized wheelchair at a rehabilitation hospital in Rome with volunteer inpatients presenting different disabilities, ranging from mild to severe. We also present a taxonomy of common metrics for wheelchair navigation and tests are evaluated accordingly. Obtained results are coherent both from a quantitative and qualitative point of view.