• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.936-940
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• 2013

As the ageing population grows around the world, the demand for electric wheelchairs, an important mobility assistance device for the disabled and elderly, is gradually increasing. Therefore, a number of studies related to intelligent wheelchairs are actively underway to improve safety and comfort for wheelchair users. However, previous collision avoidance studies for intelligent wheelchairs have concentrated on collision avoidance methods with the shortest distance and by only changing either velocity or heading angle, rather than considering the forces exerted on the user. If a collision avoidance algorithm that does not consider these forces is applied to an intelligent wheelchair, there is a possibility of an accident due to falling as wheelchair users are generally disabled and elderly people. In this paper, we propose a collision avoidance algorithm which minimizes the forces exerted on a wheelchair user by minimizing the variation of the wheelchair's velocity and heading angle when the sizes, positions, velocities, and heading angles of a wheelchair and a moving obstacle are known.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2002년도 ICCAS
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• pp.77.6-77
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• 2002

This paper describes a motored wheelchair that is suitable for disabled persons. A distinguish feature of our wheelchair is that a closed link mechanism is introduced. This link module changes conventional motored wheelchairs to computer controlled ones. It means that using intelligent functions of the computer, conventional motored wheelchairs can be navigated like an intelligent robot. Three examples of intelligent navigation functions are demonstrated. The first one is a motored wheelchair controlled by the head movement of the operator. The second one is a motored wheelchair with the image processing. Last one is a motored wheelchair with the remote sensing function.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.162-170
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• 2017

In this paper, it is aim to implement a wheelchair monitoring system that provides users with customized medical services easily in everyday life, together with mobility guarantee, which is the most basic requirement of the elderly and disabled persons with physical disabilities. The case-based intelligent wheelchair monitoring system proposed in this study is based on a case-based k-NN algorithm, which implements a system for constructing and inferring examples of various biometric and environmental information of wheelchair users as a knowledge database and a monitoring interface for wheelchair users. In order to confirm the usefulness of the case-based k-NN algorithm, the SVM algorithm showed an average accuracy of 84.2% and the average accuracy of the proposed case-based k-NN algorithm was 86.2% And showed higher performance in terms of accuracy. The system implemented in this paper has the advantage of measuring biometric information and data communication regardless of time and place and it can provide customized service of wheelchair user through user friendly interface.

• 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디자인학회 2005년도 추계 학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.44-45
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• 2005

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회 및 임시총회
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• pp.10-13
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 다기능 휠체어 시스템을 개발하기 위해 제어부를 16bit의 마이크로 프로세서인 80C196KC 사용하였고, 조이스틱을 통해서 된 시스템을 제어하는 것을 구현하였다. 전체시스템은 제작된 전동 휠체어 기본 Plant를 사용하였으며, 모터에서 Encoder로 입력받아 MCU를 통해서 휠체어 회전수를 이용하여 제어시켰다. 휠체어 모터의 제어 방법은 PWM(Pulse Width Mudulation)을 이용하였으면, 여기에 H-브릿지 회로를 구성하였다. 조이스틱을 사람의 손으로 제어하는데 있어서 조이스틱 위치 변화에 따른 전동휠체어에 부착된 DC모터 동작을 퍼지 제어 알고리즘을 사랑하였으며, DC모터의 속력과 방향을 제어하고 아울러 위치 정보까지도 제어할 누 있게끔 하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5878-5904
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• 2017

This paper proposes a novel intelligent wheelchair vehicle system that enables upper limb exercises, lower limb standing exercises and rehabilitation training in a daily life. The proposed system, which can be used to prevent at least the degeneration of body movements and further atrophy of musculoskeletal system functions, considers the characteristics and mobility of the old and the disabled. Its main purpose is to help the old and the disabled perform their daily activities as much as they can, minimizing the extent of secondary disabilities. In other words, the system will provide the old and the disabled with regular and quantitative rehabilitation exercises and diagnosis using the wheelchair-based upper/lower limb rehabilitation vehicle system and then verify their effectiveness. The system comprises an electric wheelchair, a biometric module to identify individual characteristics, and an upper/lower limb rehabilitation vehicle. In this paper the design and configuration of the developed vehicle is described, and its operation method is presented. Moreover, to verify the tracking performance of the proposed system, dangerous situations according to biosignal changes occurring during the rehabilitation exercise of a non-disabled examinee are analyzed and the performance of the upper/lower limb rehabilitation exercise function depending on muscle strength is evaluated through a neural network algorithm.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.89-94
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• 2022

최근 고령화 사회가 가속화되며 휠체어 사용이 늘고, 이에 따른 휠체어 사고 또한 증가하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 상황 속에서도 국내 휠체어 시장은 휠체어의 충돌, 넘어짐 사고를 막을 추가적인 기능들의 개발이 미진한 상태이다. 그리하여 본 논문에서는 4차 산업혁명 시대에 발맞추어 휠체어가 장애물을 자동으로 피해가고, 넘어짐이 감지되면 연동 어플리케이션에 알림이 가며 어플리케이션에서 카메라 모니터링이 가능하고, 계단을 오를 수 있는 계단용 바퀴와 자동 조도 감지 센서 전조등의 기능들이 탑재된 지능형 스마트 휠체어를 설계하고 구현하고자 한다. 이에 따라 점차 늘어나는 휠체어 사용자들의 편의를 증대시키고 빈번히 일어나는 휠체어 사고를 막을 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2001년도 ICCAS
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• pp.120.1-120
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• 2001

This paper proposes a prototype of a safe and reliable wheelchair robot with Human Robot Interaction (HRI). Since the wheelchair users are usually the handicapped, the wheelchair robot must guarantee the safety and reliability for the motion while considering users intention, A single color CCD camera is mounted for input user´s command based on human-friendly gestures, and a ultra sonic sensor array is used for sensing external motion environment. We use face and hand directional gestures as the user´s command. By combining the user´s command with the sensed environment configuration, the planner of the wheelchair robot selects an optimal motion. We implement a prototype wheelchair robot, MR, HURI (Mobile Robot with Human Robot Interaction) ...

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.161-168
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 다양한 장애를 가진 사용자들을 위한 지능형 휠체어의 인터페이스를 제안한다. 제안된 시스템의 주된 목적은 전동휠체어의 조이스틱을 사용하기 힘든 장애인들에게 효율적인 인터페이스를 제공함으로써 그들의 안전한 이동성을 보장하여 독립적인 삶을 이끌어 나갈 수 있도록 하는 것이다. 이를 위해 제안된 시스템은 사용자의 얼굴 기울기를 인식하여 휠체어의 회전을 수행하고 입 모양을 인식하여 휠체어의 전진과 정지를 수행 한다. 이러한 얼굴 특징을 인식하기 위해 제안된 시스템은 얼굴 특징 검출기, 얼굴 특징 인식기, 전환기로 구성된다. 얼굴 특징 검출기는 Adaboost를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 먼저 검출한 후 에지 정보를 이용하여 입 영역을 검출한다. 검출된 결과들은 얼굴 특징 인식기에저 statistical analysis와 K-means clustering을 이용하여 얼굴 각도와 입 모양을 인식한다. 전환기는 인식된 결과들을 휠체어의 모터를 제어하기 위한 명령어로 변환하여 사용자의 얼굴 및 입의 움직임으로 휠체어를 제어할 수 있도록 한다. 제안된 지능형 휠체어의 효율성을 증명하기 위하여 34명의 사용자를 대상으로 다양한 환경에서 실험한 결과 제안된 시스템은 전동 휠체어의 조이스틱을 사용 할 수 없는 장애인들에게 편리한 이동성을 제공하며, 보다 편리하고 친숙한 인터페이스로 사용 될 수 있음을 보여 주었다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.560-570
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• 2005

In this paper, we discuss the tracking system for a wheelchair which can follow the path of a human target such as a nurse in hospital. The problem of human tracking is that it requires recognition of feature as well as the tracking of human positions. For this purpose the use of a high cost visual sensor such as laser finder or streo camera makes the tracking a high cost additional expense. This paper proposes the tracking system uses a low cost infrared range-finder and CCD camera, The Infrared range-finder and CCD camera can create a target candidate through each target recognition algorithm. and this information is fused in order to reduce the uncertainties of a target decision and correct the positional error of the human. The effectiveness of the proposed system is verified through experiments.