Design improvements for proportional control of autonomous wheelchairs via 3DOF orientation tracker

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4507 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 1052-1059

  Mandel, Christian ^a   Frese, Udo ^b   Röfer, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); INTERFACES (COMPUTER); WHEELCHAIRS;

AUTONOMOUS WHEELCHAIRS; CONTROL INTERFACE; JOYSTICK-LIKE SIGNAL;

PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 38049141295     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73007-1_127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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