Step passage control of a power-assisted wheelchair for a caregiver

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1715-1721

  Tashiro, Sakiko ^a   Murakami, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Power assist control; Reaction torque estimation observer; Step passage; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; TORQUE CONTROL;

POWER-ASSISTED WHEELCHAIR; STEP PASSAGE CONTROL;

WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 42549149355     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.917061     Document Type: Article

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