Christopher McMurrough
ABSTRACT
This paper presents an intelligent wheelchair designed to be used as a development and evaluation platform for alternative, non-tactile power wheelchair controls. The system is designed to be highly modular such that new human-computer interface devices and methods can be quickly integrated and evaluated as necessary. The current configuration provides full proportional steering and speed control outputs using a combination of voice commands, video-occulography (eye tracking), and a single point electrode based electroencephalography (EEG) brain-computer interface.
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- A development and evaluation platform for non-tactile power wheelchair controls
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