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This paper gives an advanced driving control system considering sway suppression of a passenger on an electrical wheelchair. The proposed driving control system is constructed on virtual experiment with motion analysis. To suppress the sway of a passenger's posture, the wheelchair driving pattern is optimized using the passenger's posture model. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed...
This paper describes a novel driving control scheme of electric power assisted wheelchairs based on human characteristics learning. ??Electric power assisted wheelchair?? which assists the driving force by electric motors is expected to be widely used as a mobility support system for elderly people and disabled people. However, some handicapped people such as paralysis of the muscles of one side of...
Summary form only given. In the coming advanced age society, an innovative technology to assist the activities of daily living of elderly and disabled people and the heavy work in nursing is desired. A wearable power assist robot is one of effective approaches as such technology, which is equipped to the human body to assist the muscular force. Since this kind of robot directly acts on the human body,...
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