Implementation of an intelligent walking assistant robot for the elderly in outdoor environment

In this paper, we propose an architecture of walking assistant robot for the elderly which is usable at outdoor environment. It is equipped with a PXA255 embedded board, motors, a laser range finder, a CCD camera and a GPS receiver. A user operates it using haptic handle bar. It is useful to the elderly for more comfortable walking and path guidance.

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