Hands-Free Technology and Shared Control Strategies to Provide Mobility Assistance for Elderly and Disabled People
Project Member(s): Nguyen, H.
Start year: 2004
Summary: We propose to develop effective shared control strategies to provide mobility assistance for elderly and disabled people. First, we aim to develop an innovative hands-free technology using head movement and EEG to assist the operator to perform general task-specific navigation. The second aim is to develop a shared control system which allows the human operator to retain apparent control, yet seamlessly ensures a human-machine system to operate safely and accurately. Fast and robust algorithms based on an optimum information transmission technique for the sensor signals and a trainable Bayesian network for selecting the best shared control mode will be implemented.''
Keywords: Rehabilitation Engineering Hands Free Technology Shared Control Optimum Information Transmission Bayesian Network Robotic Wheelchair
FOR Codes: Rehabilitation Engineering, Care for Disabled, Intelligent Robotics, Medical instrumentation, Medical Instruments, Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics, Rehabilitation engineering , People with disability