Human-centered wheelchairs: Bimanual gliding interface with heart rate monitoring
Journal
IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, AIM
Pages
208-213
Date Issued
2012
Author(s)
Abstract
This paper presents a new wheelchair manipulation interface which is developed with bimanual gliding control interfaces. An important feature of the bimanual gliding control interface is performing intuitive manipulations when compared to conventional unilateral joystick interface. At the mean time, the bimanual gliding control interface also realizes the measurement of closed-line biopotential currents that flow in the thoracic volume conductor via a pair of surface electrodes placed on two gliding sensor modules. Therefore, the new designed bimanual gliding control interface does not only provide a feasible wheelchair manipulation interface, but also measure the user's heart rate. Finally, a bimanual gliding (BG) wheelchair prototype is produced in this paper for performance evaluations. ? 2012 IEEE.
Subjects
Assistive technology
Biopotentials
Control interfaces
Heart rates
Heart-rate monitoring
Joy-stick interfaces
Manipulation interface
Performance evaluation
Sensor modules
Surface electrode
Volume conductors
Intelligent mechatronics
Patient monitoring
Wheelchairs
Type
conference paper