Research on the shared control technology for robotic wheelchairs based on topological map
ISSN: 0143-991x
Article publication date: 10 December 2019
Issue publication date: 9 October 2020
Abstract
Purpose
A robotic wheelchair system was designed to assist disabled people with disabilities to walk.
Design/methodology/approach
An anticipated sharing control strategy based on topological map is proposed in this paper, which is used to assist robotic wheelchairs to realize interactive navigation. Then, a robotic wheelchair navigation control system based on the brain-computer interface and topological map was designed and implemented.
Findings
In the field of robotic wheelchairs, the problems of poor use, narrow application range and low humanization are still not improved.
Originality/value
In the system, the topological map construction is not restricted by the environment structure, which helps to expand the scope of application; the shared control system can predict the users’ intention and replace the users’ decision to realize human-machine interactive navigation, which has higher security, robustness and comfort.
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Acknowledgements
Funding: This research was funded by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China, grant number N172608005, N182612002 and Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 20180520007.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Citation
Wang, F., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., Gao, Y., Xiao, L. and Wu, C. (2020), "Research on the shared control technology for robotic wheelchairs based on topological map", Industrial Robot, Vol. 47 No. 6, pp. 825-835. https://doi.org/10.1108/IR-04-2019-0084
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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