Robotic wheelchair trajectory control considering user comfort

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 37 LNEE, Issue , 2009, Pages 113-125

  Solea, Razvan ^a,b   Nunes, Urbano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b DUNAREA DE JOS UNIVERSITY OF GALATI   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SPECTRAL DENSITIES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HEAD-NECK COMPLEXES; HUMAN BODIES; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MOTION SICKNESS; PENDULUM MODEL; ROBOTIC WHEELCHAIRS; SLIDING MODES; TIME DOMAIN; TRAJECTORY CONTROL; TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; ROBOTS; SPECTRAL DENSITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRAJECTORIES; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; WHEELCHAIRS;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 79956315711     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-00271-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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