Title
A visual servoing approach for autonomous corridor following and doorway passing in a wheelchair
Abstract
Navigating within an unknown indoor environment using an electric wheelchair is a challenging task, especially if the user suffers from severe disabilities. In order to reduce fatigability and increase autonomy, control architectures have to be designed that would assist users in wheelchair navigation. We present a framework for vision-based autonomous indoor navigation in an electric wheelchair capable of following corridors, and passing through open doorways using a single doorpost. Visual features extracted from cameras on board the wheelchair are used as inputs for image based controllers built-in the wheelchair. It has to be noted that no a-priori information is utilized except for the assumption that the wheelchair moves in a typical indoor environment while the system is coarsely calibrated. The designed control schemes have been implemented onto a robotized wheelchair and experimental results show the robust behaviour of the designed system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.robot.2014.10.017
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Visual servoing,Wheelchair navigation,Assistive robotics,Vision-based robotics
Convergence (routing),Wheelchair,Computer vision,Simulation,Computer science,Image based,Artificial intelligence,Visual servoing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
75
PA
0921-8890
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.63
19
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
François Pasteau1396.87
Vishnu K. Narayanan2163.02
Marie Babel36612.93
francois chaumette44374311.50