Title :
Elevator available voice activated wheelchair
Author :
Murai, Akira ; Mizuguchi, Masaharu ; Saitoh, Takeshi ; Osaki, Tomoyuki ; Konishi, Ryosuke
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Electron., Tottori Univ., Tottori, Japan
fDate :
Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 2 2009
Abstract :
This paper develops a new functional voice activated wheelchair. Our system has two major functions. The first function is the collision avoidance function that the wheelchair avoids the wall and obstacle without voice command by using the sensor information. This function has three autonomous movements of the stop movement, avoidance movement and deceleration movement. The second function is the robust elevator entry/exit function which can work smoothly in a variety of situations. Various experiments were carried out and evaluate the proposed system with several conditions. As the result, our system ran indoor environment safely. Furthermore, our system was possible to entry/exit the elevator, and move between floors.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; handicapped aids; mobile robots; speech recognition; speech-based user interfaces; wheelchairs; autonomous movements; avoidance movement; collision avoidance function; deceleration movement; robust elevator entry/exit function; sensor information; stop movement; voice activated wheelchair; Collision avoidance; Control systems; Electromyography; Electrooculography; Elevators; Floors; Infrared sensors; Sensor systems; Speech recognition; Wheelchairs;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009. RO-MAN 2009. The 18th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Toyama
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5081-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1944-9445
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2009.5326329