Human-centered wheelchairs: Bimanual gliding interface with heart rate monitoring

Chung Hsien Kuo*, Ting Shuo Chen, Jiann Jone Chen, Yang Hua Lin, Wen Yu Liu

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Abstract

This paper presents a new wheelchair manipulation interface which is developed with bimanual gliding control interfaces. An important feature of the bimanual gliding control interface is performing intuitive manipulations when compared to conventional unilateral joystick interface. At the mean time, the bimanual gliding control interface also realizes the measurement of closed-line biopotential currents that flow in the thoracic volume conductor via a pair of surface electrodes placed on two gliding sensor modules. Therefore, the new designed bimanual gliding control interface does not only provide a feasible wheelchair manipulation interface, but also measure the user's heart rate. Finally, a bimanual gliding (BG) wheelchair prototype is produced in this paper for performance evaluations.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAIM 2012 - 2012 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Conference Digest
Pages208-213
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2012 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Duration: 11 07 201214 07 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM 2012
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityKaohsiung
Period11/07/1214/07/12

Keywords

  • assistive technology
  • bimanual gliding control
  • heart rate monitoring
  • wheelchair

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