Hierarchical Shared Control of Cane-Type Walking-Aid Robot

A hierarchical shared-control method of the walking-aid robot for both human motion intention recognition and the obstacle emergency-avoidance method based on artificial potential field (APF) is proposed in this paper. The human motion intention is obtained from the interaction force measurements of...

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Main Authors: Chunjing Tao, Qingyang Yan, Yitong Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:Journal of Healthcare Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8932938