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Author Urdiales, Cristina.

Title Collaborative assistive robot for mobility enhancement (CARMEN) : the bare necessities: assisted wheelchair navigation and beyond / Cristina Urdiales ; [co-authors: José Manuel Peula Palacios, Manuel Fdez-Carmona]
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series Intelligent systems reference library, 1868-4394 ; v. 27
Intelligent systems reference library ; v. 27.
Contents From the content: On the why of robotic assistive devices -- A Dummy's Guide to Assistive Navigation Devices -- From shared control to collaborative navigation -- Bigger, faster, better, more! -- If I only had a brain -- Once more, with feeling
Summary 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
Analysis Engineering
Medical records -- Data processing
Artificial intelligence
Biomedical engineering
Computational Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
Health Informatics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
Electric wheelchairs -- Automatic control
People with disabilities -- Orientation and mobility.
Robotics.
Self-Help Devices
Mobility Limitation
Robotics
MEDICAL -- Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Ingénierie.
Robotics
People with disabilities -- Orientation and mobility
Self-help devices for people with disabilities
Autonomer Roboter
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Multimodales System
Gehirn-Computer-Schnittstelle
Peripheres Gerät
Bahnplanung
Form Electronic book
Author Peula Palacios, José Manuel.
Fdez-Carmona, Manuel
ISBN 9783642249020
3642249027
3642249019
9783642249013