Novel Control Scheme of Power Assisted Wheelchair for Preventing Overturn (Part I) —Adjustment of Assisted Torque and Performance Evaluation From Field Test—

IEEJ Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 318-323

  Seki, Hirokazu ^a   Hata, Naoki ^b   Koyasu, Yuichi ^b   Hori, Yoichi ^b  

^a CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

control for prevention of overturn; feedforward control; performance evaluation from trial subjects; power assisted wheelchair; support for aged people and disabled people; welfare control engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745661227     PISSN: 09136339     EISSN: 13488163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1541/ieejias.124.318     Document Type: Article

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