An emerging research problem in assistive robotics is the design of methodologies that
allow robots to provide personalized assistance to users. For this purpose, we present a …

Mobility is a causal factor in development. Children with mobility impairments may rely upon
power mobility for independence and thus require advanced driving skills to function …

Many older adults in long-term-care homes have complex physical and cognitive
impairments and have difficulty propelling manual wheelchairs. Power wheelchair use is …

The degradation of mobility is one of the major concerns that affect the independent living
ability of elderly/disabled people. Therefore, mobility assistive devices are being developed …

People with upper extremity disabilities are gaining increased independence through the
use of assisted devices such as wheelchair-mounted robotic arms. However, the increased …

We propose a collaborative teleoperation algorithm which utilizes haptic force feedback to
guide users around oncoming obstacles while accounting for non-holonomic constraints …

In case of motor impairments, steering a wheelchair can become a hazardous task. Joystick
jerks induced by uncontrolled motions may lead to wall collisions when a user steers a …

The broader goal of our research is to train infants with special needs to safely and
purposefully drive a mobile robot to explore the environment. The hypothesis is that these …

This article introduces a set of novel haptic guidance algorithms intended to provide intuitive
and reliable assistance for electric wheelchair navigation through narrow or crowded …

A shared control method, called Shared Control Dynamic Window Approach, is presented. It
is inspired in the Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) for autonomous mobile robots. It takes …