Development of intelligent parking support system for welfare vehicle

Welfare vehicles are convenient equipments for a senior citizen. Because they have a nonholonomic characteristic, driving them are uneasy. Especially, since the area that can move in the parking lot is limited, the operation is very difficult. To help him parking, an intelligent parking support system by fuzzy control that built in expert´s knowledge is developed. This system supports other guidance means such as voice information and image information. In this paper, the effectiveness of the developed system is shown by testing the operation support.