A low-cost electric power wheelchair with manual and vision-based control systems

IEEE AFRICON Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Romero, Benjamín ^a   Camacho, Abraham ^a   Varona, Jorge ^a   Delgado, Carlos ^a   Velázquez, Ramiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PANAMERICANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Autonomous navigation; Computer vision; Edge detection; Mobility aid; Power wheelchair; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

AUDIO INFORMATION; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; ELECTRIC POWER WHEELCHAIRS; EXPERIMENTAL PLATFORM; INTELLIGENT WHEELCHAIR; INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING; LOCATION-AWARE; MANUAL OPERATIONS; MOBILE ROBOTIC; MOBILITY AIDS; POWER WHEELCHAIR; STRUCTURED ENVIRONMENT; VISION BASED CONTROL;

COMPUTER VISION; EDGE DETECTION; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; WHEELCHAIRS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 74349120742     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AFRCON.2009.5308554     Document Type: Conference Paper

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