VAHM: a user adapted intelligent wheelchair

In the last decade, several international researchers have developed intelligent wheelchairs for disabled people. Many of these projects have founded their control structure on a sensor-referenced control. Many types of control are available in this area, but the final choice is in charge of the user. In this paper a multi-agent based control is proposed, ensuring the best choice of the control in a given context according to user's preferences. In fact, this control tries to merge the man and the machine, in order to make a symbiosis to create the machine easily acceptable and the control more efficient.

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