Friday, October 3, 2008
Developing wheelchair responding to verbal commands
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers led by Assistant Professor Nicholas Roy, are developing an autonomous wheelchair that can respond to verbal commands and learn the locations in a building.
A wheelchair occupant just has to say "take me to the cafeteria" or "go to my room," and relax in the chair as it maneuvers from one place to another based on a map stored in its memory, the MIT news reported on September 19.
"It's a system that can learn and adapt to the user," said Nicholas Roy, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics and co-developer of the wheelchair. Each chair could be personalized by the user, he said, based on what the per son wants to feed into the computerized chair.
Previous attempts to program wheelchairs and other mobile instruments have used intensive manual detailed mapping the chair being developed by Roy etal can learn about its environment almost like a human by being taken around on a guided tour and talking to it about the various landmarks.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
A wheelchair occupant just has to say "take me to the cafeteria" or "go to my room," and relax in the chair as it maneuvers from one place to another based on a map stored in its memory, the MIT news reported on September 19.
"It's a system that can learn and adapt to the user," said Nicholas Roy, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics and co-developer of the wheelchair. Each chair could be personalized by the user, he said, based on what the per son wants to feed into the computerized chair.
Previous attempts to program wheelchairs and other mobile instruments have used intensive manual detailed mapping the chair being developed by Roy etal can learn about its environment almost like a human by being taken around on a guided tour and talking to it about the various landmarks.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: Assistant Professor Nicholas Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mobile instruments, program, researchers, respond, verbal commands, wheelchair
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