Our nation faces increasing challenges in meeting the special needs of elderly and disabled individuals. Non-ambulatory persons with visual impairment, diminished upper-body mobility, spasticity/tremors, memory/attention deficits and other problems may require extraordinary care measures because… More

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Serious wheelchair accidents have risen to almost 37,000 per year. Users of power chairs are three times as likely to have accidents as users of manual chairs! Many people can neither walk nor successfully navigate a wheelchair, e.g., many with MS, quadraplegia,… More

The objective of this proposal is develop a concept for embedded peer-to-peer human/robot interaction that will allow a robot to work side-by-side with a person or a group of people in contrast to more traditional deployments of robotic hardware which keep the robots and humans very far from each… More