Collaborative Assistive Robot for Mobility Enhancement (CARMEN) The bare necessities: assisted wheelchair navigation and beyond /

• Main Author: Urdiales, Cristina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 27
• Subjects: Engineering.; Health informatics.; Artificial intelligence.; Computational intelligence.; Biomedical engineering.; Computational Intelligence.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Health Informatics.; Biomedical Engineering.

In nowadays aging society, many people require mobility assistance. Sometimes, assistive devices need a certain degree of autonomy when users' disabilities difficult manual control. However, clinicians report that excessive assistance may lead to loss of residual skills and frustration. Shared...

Table of Contents:

• From the content: On the why of robotic assistive devices
• A Dummy’s Guide to Assistive Navigation Devices
• From shared control to collaborative navigation
• Bigger, faster, better, more!
• If I only had a brain
• Once more, with feeling.