Wheelchair Mobility A Novel Approach

Abstract: This paper reviews how to build a accurate mobility enhancing device for wheelchair users. The basic idea is to mount the wheelchair on top of a device that is capable of required maneuvers. A major discussion for this mobility is to allow the wheelchair user to control the wheelchair carrying vehicle utilizing human machine interface (HMI) approach. To achieve this compatibility a dynamics mimicking device is build that interfaces between the wheelchair and the carrying vehicle. The surface device obtains the kinematics of the wheelchair as well as the desired motion and translates it for the command of carrying vehicle such that the carrying vehicle performs the desired action instead of the wheelchair. This review provide the reader to understand how the technology and science can be used to develop the assistive dynamics mimicking and serve as a platform for researcher to work on more complex scenarios.

Keywords: Wheelchair, Robotics, Maneuverability, Human Machine Interfacing (HMI).