Head gesture recognition for hands-free control of an intelligent wheelchair

Industrial Robot

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-68

  Hu, Huosheng H ^a   Jia, Pei ^a   Lu, Tao ^b   Yuan, Kui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Automation; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MOTION CONTROL; TRACKING (POSITION); WHEELCHAIRS;

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACE; INTELLIGENT WHEELCHAIRS; OBJECT TRACKING ALGORITHM; ROBOCHAIR;

GESTURE RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846280142     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910710718469     Document Type: Article

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