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Many people with severe disabilities find it difficult or even impossible to use traditional powered wheelchairs independently by manually controlling these electrical devices. Intelligent wheelchairs are a very good solution to assist severely handicapped people who are unable to operate classical electrical wheelchair by themselves in their daily activities. This paper describes a development platform for intelligent wheelchairs called IntellWheels. The intelligent system developed may be added to commercial powered wheelchairs with minimal modifications in a very straightforward manner. The paper describes the concept and design of the platform, including the hardware and software, multimodal input interface and the intelligent wheelchair prototype developed to validate the approach. Preliminary results concerning automatic movement of the IntellWheels prototype are also described showing the autonomous movement capabilities of the prototype.
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Braga, R.A.M., Petry, M., Moreira, A.P., Reis, L.P. (2009). Concept and Design of the Intellwheels Platform for Developing Intelligent Wheelchairs. In: Cetto, J.A., Ferrier, JL., Filipe, J. (eds) Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00271-7_14
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