Autonomous Wheelchair for Disabled People
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This paper describes the RobChair assistive navigation system. RobChair project was conceived with the aim to assist disabled people in the difficult task of manoeuvring a powered wheelchair. This paper describes the overall hardware and software architecture including the communication system; a friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) which also works as a simulator; and introduces a voice Human Machine Interface (HMI). The system’s architecture follows a behaviour-based control architecture.
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