A multi-stage shared control method for an intelligent mobility assistant

Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE 9th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 426-429

  McLachlan, Skye ^a   Arblaster, Jaimal ^a   Liu, D K ^a   Miro, Jaime Valls ^a   Chenoweth, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUZZY SETS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ROBOTICS;

MULTI-STAGE SHARED CONTROL METHOD (MSSC); OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; ROBOTIC MOBILITY; VECTOR FIELD HISTOGRAM (VFH) ALGORITHMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745774585     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICORR.2005.1501134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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