On a Roll: Autonomous Navigation Lasers and Robotics Push "Smart" Wheelchair Technology to the Cutting Edge [Slide Show]
One of the latest attempts to build a commercially viable smart wheelchair is leveraging lessons learned from the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge
On a Roll: Autonomous Navigation Lasers and Robotics Push "Smart" Wheelchair Technology to the Cutting Edge [Slide Show]
- LITTLE BEN Little Ben, a Toyota Prius fitted with laser and camera sensors, competed in DARPA's 2007 Urban Challenge and was one of six cars (out of a field of 89 vehicles) that autonomously completed the 92-kilometer course, designed to mimic the challenges of city driving... © LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
- PROTOTYPE Lehigh University's prototype smart wheelchair is configured with a Hokuyo Automatic UTM-30LX LiDAR, high resolution encoders and Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS)-enabled GPS. The chair was able to track its position to an accuracy of about 20 centimeters over a nearly one-kilometer path... © LEHIGH UNIVERSITY