Robotic personal aids for mobility and monitoring for the elderly

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 344-351

  Spenko, Matthew ^a   Yu, Haoyong ^b   Dubowsky, Steven ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Mobility; Personal aids for mobility and monitoring (PAMM); SmartCane; SmartWalker

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY; PERSONAL AIDS FOR MOBILITY AND MONITORING (PAMM); REHABILITATION DEVICES; SMARTCANE; SMARTWALKER;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; MONITORING; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ROBOTICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; ECHOLOCATION; ELDERLY CARE; HUMAN; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SENSOR; VISUAL AID; WALKING AID;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; ROBOTICS; SELF-HELP DEVICES; TELEMEDICINE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WALKERS;

EID: 33749648421     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2006.881534     Document Type: Article

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