CAR TRANSFER ADAPTIVE SYSTEM FOR DISABLED

Marius PANDELEA, Luige VLĂDĂREANU, Mihaiela ILIESCU, Alexandru COTFAS

Abstract


For a normal life, persons with locomotors disabilities need mobility. Their transfer from bed to wheel chair and then into a car represents one of their essential needs. This paper presents research results on the adaptive mechatronic system for transferring people with locomotor disabilities from the wheelchair into the car. Experiments with perception subsystem have been conducted in real motion environment. The mechatronic system’s main component is a parallelogram mechanism whose motion is controlled by the processed signals acquired from the sensors of visual perception subsystem. For avoiding person’s body collision with different parts of the car (pillar, celling, door) the perception subsystem has camera and laser sensor. The information from these sensors determine accurate control of parallelogram mechanism motion.


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