Semiautonomous low cost wheelchair for elderly and disabled people

2nd International Conference on Information and Automation, ICIA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 104-108

  Kuruparan, Jegatheeswaran ^a   Jayanthan, Theivendramoorthy ^a   Ratheeskanth, Vadivelu ^a   Denixavier, Soosainayagam ^a   Munasinghe, Sudath Rohan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Autonomous wheelchair; Joystick controlling; Obstacle avoidance; Robotic wheelchair; Wheelchair

Indexed keywords

DC MOTORS; DETECTORS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; MAGNETS; MECHANIZATION; MODULATION; MOTORS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SENSORS; SONAR; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; DISABLED PEOPLE; ELDERLY PEOPLE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOW COSTS; PERMANENT MAGNET DC MOTORS; PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION (PWM) CONTROL; SONAR SENSORS; ULTRASONIC RANGE FINDERS;

WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 46849114543     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICINFA.2006.374163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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