Distributed intelligence to control a stair-climbing wheelchair

Abstract

At the Institute of Biomedical Engineering a legged climbing robot, called the GS2, has been developed that enables a fully grown adult to be lifted over any common step or staircase. As complete automatic control is one of the key features for this mobile robot, a new multi-microcomputer concept, based on a CAN-Bus Network was developed for this application. With this new concept a new robot system is being built, called the GS3.