Personal adaptive mobility aid for the infirm and elderly blind

Lacey, Gerard; MacNamara, Shane; Dawson‐Howe, Kenneth M.

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“…Constructions of such devices vary from ultrasonic sensors mounted on the spectacles frame [79] or on a special belt [80]- [83] to special navigation canes and motorized guidance devices (such as an "artificial guide dog for blind people"). Examples include the Travel Aiding Robotic Mate (TARM) developed at KAIST, Korea [84], the NavCane Project [85] and the HITOMI Project-Japan [86], and the PAM-AID Project [87]- [90], [see 4) in the Appendix]. The PAM-AID system and HITOMI provide the user with both navigational and physical support.…”

Section: ) Electromechanical Devices For Movement Assistancementioning

confidence: 99%

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

Stefanov

Bien

Bang

2004

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

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Abstract-Smart houses are considered a good alternative for the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Numerous intelligent devices, embedded into the home environment, can provide the resident with both movement assistance and 24-h health monitoring. Modern home-installed systems tend to be not only physically versatile in functionality but also emotionally human-friendly, i.e., they may be able to perform their functions without disturbing the user and without causing him/her any pain, inconvenience, or movement restriction, instead possibly providing him/her with comfort and pleasure. Through an extensive survey, this paper analyzes the building blocks of smart houses, with particular attention paid to the health monitoring subsystem as an important component, by addressing the basic requirements of various sensors implemented from both research and clinical perspectives. The paper will then discuss some important issues of the future development of an intelligent residential space with a human-friendly health monitoring functional system. Index Terms-Health monitoring, intelligent house, smart house, wearable sensor.

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Section: ) Electromechanical Devices For Movement Assistancementioning

confidence: 99%

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

Stefanov

Bien

Bang

2004

IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng.

306

120

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“…However, this was one of the considerations in the design of the PAM-AID mobility aid for elderly blind people, with particular attention given to user preferences for the user interface (Lacey et al 1998). Research on user acceptance of other types of (mobile) assistive robots for disabled and/or elderly people has also been sparse and investigation of the factors that affect the degree of user acceptance even more limited.…”

Section: End-user Acceptance Of Robotic Guides Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Robotic Guide for Blind People. Part 1. A Multi-National Survey of the Attitudes, Requirements and Preferences of Potential End-Users

Hersh

Johnson

2010

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

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This paper reports the results of a multi-national survey in several different countries on the attitudes, requirements and preferences of blind and visually impaired people for a robotic guide. The survey is introduced by a brief overview of existing work on robotic travel aids and other mobile robotic devices. The questionnaire comprises three sections on personal information about respondents, existing use of mobility and navigation devices and the functions and other features of a robotic guide. The survey found that respondents were very interested in the robotic guide having a number of different functions and being useful in a wide range of circumstances. They considered the robot's appearance to be very important but did not like any of the proposed designs. From their comments, respondents wanted the robot to be discreet and inconspicuous, small, light weight and portable, easy to use, robust to damage, require minimal maintenance, have a long life and a long battery life.

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“…Most existing robotic devices are active aids-meaning that they share control over motion with the user-and are aimed at obstacle avoidance and path navigation. There exist a number of wheelchair systems [14], [17], [19], [23] as well as several walker-and cane-based devices [5], [13], [9], [21] targeted at blind and elderly people. A technology with some similarities to ours is the walker-based Guido system.…”

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“…Guido evolved from Lacey and MacNamara's PAM-AID, and was designed to facilitate independent exercise for the visually impaired elderly. It provides power-assisted wall or corridor following [9]. Dubowksy et al's PAMM (Personal Aid for Mobility and Monitoring, distinct from PAM-AID) project focuses on health monitoring and navigation for users in an eldercare facility, and most recently has adopted a custom-made holonomic walker frame as its physical form [6], [25].…”

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Learning user models of mobility-related activities through instrumented walking aids

Glover

Thrun²,

Matthews³

2004

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004. Proceedings. ICRA '04. 2004

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Abstract-We present a robotic walking aid capable of learning models of users' walking-related activities. Our walker is instrumented to provide guidance to elderly people when navigating their environments; however, such guidance is difficult to provide without knowing what activity a person is engaged in (e.g., where a person wants to go). The main contribution of this paper is an algorithm for learning models of users of the walker. These models are defined at multiple levels of abstractions, and learned from actual usage data using statistical techniques. We demonstrate that our approach succeeds in determining the specific activity in which a user engages when using the walker. One of our proto-type walkers was tested in an assisted living facility near Pittsburgh, PA; a more recent model was extensively evaluated in a university environment.

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Personal adaptive mobility aid for the infirm and elderly blind

Cited by 36 publications

References 4 publications

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

The smart house for older persons and persons with physical disabilities: structure, technology arrangements, and perspectives

A Robotic Guide for Blind People. Part 1. A Multi-National Survey of the Attitudes, Requirements and Preferences of Potential End-Users

Learning user models of mobility-related activities through instrumented walking aids

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