Design Considerations for a Personalized Wheelchair Navigation System
Dan Ding, Bambang Parmanto, Hassan A. Karimi, Duangduen Roongpiboonsopit, Gede Pramana, Thomas Conahan, Piyawan Kasemsuppakorn · Conference proceedings · 2007
Individuals with mobility impairments such as wheelchair users are often at a disadvantage when traveling to a new place, as their mobility can be easily affected by environmental barriers, and as such, even short trips can be difficult and perhaps impossible. We envision a personalized wheelchair navigation system based on a PDA equipped with wireless Internet access and GPS that can provide adaptive navigation support to wheelchair users in any geographic environment. Requirements, architectures and components of such a system are described in this paper.