Training toddlers seated on mobile robots to drive indoors amidst obstacles

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-279

  Chen, Xi ^a   Ragonesi, Christina ^a   Galloway, James C ^a   Agrawal, Sunil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Driver training; force tunnels; force feedback joystick; haptic guidance; obstacle avoidance

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL POTENTIAL FIELDS; AVOID OBSTACLES; AVOIDING OBSTACLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY; DRIVER EXPERIENCE; DRIVING SKILLS; FORCE FEEDBACK JOYSTICK; FORCE FIELDS; FORCE TUNNELS; HAPTIC GUIDANCE; POWER MOBILITY;

CURRICULA; DRIVER TRAINING;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROBOTICS; SPINAL DYSRAPHISM; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79958719397     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2011.2114370     Document Type: Article

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