A robotic vehicle for disabled children

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 55-63

  Ceres, Ramón ^a,b   Pons, José L ^c,d,e   Calderón, Leopoldo ^f   Jiménez, Antonio R ^e   Azevedo, Luis ^g  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b Innovation Projects IBEROEKA ^*

^c IEEE   (Spain)

^d Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control Society   (Spain)

^e Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas   (Spain)

^f Spanish Association of Informatics and Automatics ^*  (Spain)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CAMERA; CEREBRAL PALSY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; HANDICAPPED CHILD; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NOISE; OBSTACLE DETECTION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PULSE RATE; PULSE RATE FREQUENCY; ROBOTIC VEHICLE; ROBOTICS; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TECHNICAL AID; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED STATES; WHEELCHAIR; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISABLED PERSON; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHILD; DISABLED PERSONS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; ROBOTICS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 33644838782     PISSN: 07395175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMB.2005.1549731     Document Type: Article

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