Title :
Traveling control of the autonomous mobile wheel-chair DREAM-3 considering correction of the initial position
Author :
Ohkita, Masaaki ; Tamanaha, Ryusuke ; Okugumo, Masaki ; Tanaka, Jun ; Ohki, Makoto ; Kimura, Akihiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tottori Univ., Japan
Abstract :
The aim to develop DREAM-3 is make it travel in indoor environments such as in hospitals and/or welfare facilities for their practical use and serve to take care of old people and physically handicapped person. The autonomous mobile robot DREAM-3 has loaded an environmental map for the safety driving, where various sensor information is integrated. In this paper, method to collect the initial position of the robot on the environmental map is described with the traveling control.
Keywords :
handicapped aids; mobile robots; position control; DREAM-3 mobile robot; autonomous mobile robot; autonomous mobile wheel chair; environmental map; hospitals; indoor environment; old people; physically handicapped person; position control; sensor information; traveling control; welfare facilities; Hospitals; Manufacturing; Microcomputers; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Safety; Senior citizens; Tactile sensors; Wheelchairs; Wheels;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2004. MWSCAS '04. The 2004 47th Midwest Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8346-X
DOI :
10.1109/MWSCAS.2004.1354330
