Title :
Wheelchair-mounted robots for the home environment
Author :
Prior, S.D. ; Warner, P.R.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Technol., Middlesex Univ., London, UK
Abstract :
Statistics on people with disabilities, together with data on the number and use of wheelchairs in the United Kingdom, are summarized. The history of electric-wheelchair-mounted robotic devices is detailed and critically reviewed. A novel design for a hybrid electropneumatic wheelchair-mounted robot for the home environment is presented
Keywords :
handicapped aids; United Kingdom; disabled people; electric-wheelchair-mounted robotic devices; history; home environment; hybrid electropneumatic wheelchair-mounted robot; wheelchairs; Investments; Marketing and sales; Mobile robots; Profitability; Robot sensing systems; Senior citizens; Service robots; Statistics; Technology transfer; Wheelchairs;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Robots and Systems '93, IROS '93. Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yokohama
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0823-9
DOI :
10.1109/IROS.1993.583355
