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Implementation of an Intelligent Walking Assistant Robot for the Elderly in Outdoor Environment

Hyeon-Min Shim, Eung-Hyuk Lee, Jae-Hong Shim, Sang‐Moo Lee, Seung-Hong, Hong

Year
2005
Citations
31

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an architecture of walking assistant robot for the elderly which is usable at outdoor environment. It is equipped with a PXA255 embedded board, motors, a laser range finder, a CCD camera and a GPS receiver. A user operates it using haptic handle bar. It is useful to the elderly for more comfortable walking and path guidance.

Keywords

USableRobotComputer scienceHaptic technologyGlobal Positioning SystemElderly peopleMobile robotSimulationArtificial intelligenceReal-time computing

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