Study of evaluation method for mental activities and apprication to intelligent power wheelchair

Author

Fujimoto, Yasunari ; Obayashi, Gen ; Sekine, Nobuyuki ; Yamaguchi, Toru

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Syst. Design, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1014

Lastpage

1015

Abstract

It is important to evaluate a mental activities or a physical condition on health care and rehabilitation equipments. This paper shows the method for evaluating mental activities by an easy measurement and the application the method to intelligent power wheelchair adjusting power assistance. The method is based on chaos theory. The mental activities are obtained to calculate user´s accelerated plethysmogram applied chaos analysis. The intelligent power wheelchair is included walking function adjusting power volume for assistance based on mental activities.

Keywords

chaos; control engineering computing; gait analysis; handicapped aids; health care; neurophysiology; patient rehabilitation; plethysmography; wheelchairs; chaos analysis; chaos theory; health care equipment; intelligent power wheelchair; mental activities evaluation method; power volume adjustment; rehabilitation equipment; users accelerated plethysmogram; walking function; Acceleration; Chaos; Legged locomotion; Senior citizens; Stress; Trajectory; Wheelchairs; chaos; evaluation; mental stress; plethysmogram; power wheelchair; pulse wave;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference 2010, Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7642-8

Type

conf

Filename

5602339