Analysis of position and isometric joysticks for powered wheelchair driving

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 902-910

  Cooper, Rory A ^a   Jones, Daniel K ^a   Fitzgerald, Shirley ^b   Boninger, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Human machine control; Information processing; Modeling; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; DATA PROCESSING; MANUAL CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRIC POWERED WHEELCHAIR; FITTS LAW; HUMAN MACHINE CONTROL; PHYSIOLOGICAL MOTIONS;

WHEELCHAIRS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DRIVING ABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; WHEELCHAIR;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0033918517     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.846684     Document Type: Article

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