Collaborative control for a robotic wheelchair: Evaluation of performance, attention, and workload

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 876-888

  Carlson, Tom ^a,b   Demiris, Yiannis ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collision avoidance; human factors; human robot interaction; intelligent robots; rehabilitation robotics; wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACE; COGNITIVE WORKLOADS; COLLABORATIVE CONTROL; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; CONTROL SIGNAL; CRITICAL CASE; EYE-TRACKING; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE COLLISIONS; OTHER APPLICATIONS; POWERED WHEEL CHAIRS; REHABILITATION ROBOTICS; ROBOTIC WHEELCHAIRS; SHARED CONTROL; SYSTEM USE; USER INPUT; USER PERFORMANCE;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; WHEELCHAIRS;

ROBOTICS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WHEELCHAIR; WORKLOAD;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; ROBOTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WHEELCHAIRS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84861200566     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2011.2181833     Document Type: Article

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