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In this study, we are developing a power add-on unit (PAU) for attendant propelled wheelchairs with sensorless speed control and power assistance to help an attendant who are pushing a conventional commercialized manual wheelchair in which a patient is sitting in the wheelchair. This development is based on the following three concept: to make our PAU (1) easy to be attached to and detached from the wheelchair; (2) able to be used to the most of the conventional commercialized wheelchairs; (3) low cost. Further, in order to make the attendant more easily and comfortably propel the wheelchair, a sensorless power assistance approach is proposed. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.
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Shibayama, M., Zhu, C., Shui, W. (2016). Development of an Add-on Driving Unit for Attendant Propelled Wheelchairs with Sensorless Power Assistance. In: Kubota, N., Kiguchi, K., Liu, H., Obo, T. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9835. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43518-3_17
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