Development of Intelligent wheelchair employing omni-directional camera and slightly tilted laser rangefinder

Hiroki Iikura; Kazuyuki Kobayashi; Kajiro Watanabe

doi:10.11499/sicep.2004.0_61_4

SICE Annual Conference 2004

DOI https://doi.org/10.11499/sicep.2004.0_61_4

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Host: The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers

Co-host: The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, The IEEE Control Systems Society, The IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

Development of Intelligent wheelchair employing omni-directional camera and slightly tilted laser rangefinder

*Hiroki Iikura, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Kajiro Watanabe

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Keywords: wheelchair, laser rangefinder, omni-directional camera

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of an intelligent wheelchair. In order to assist the maneuvering of the wheelchair, we employed an omni-directional camera and a slightly tilted laser rangefinder. By using this combination of sensors, it can identify a sidewalk. Thus, it can travel on a sidewalk automatically without difficulty. The proposed method is verified experimentally in outdoor environments.

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