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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2011.21.1.80

Design of the Power Assist Controller for the In-Wheel Type Smart Wheelchair  

Kong, Jung-Shik (인덕대학 기계설계과)
Baek, Seung-Yub (인덕대학 기계설계과)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.21, no.1, 2011 , pp. 80-85 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents the design of the power-assisted controller for the in-wheel type smart wheelchair by using torque estimation that is predicted by relationship between input voltage and output wheel angular velocity. Nowadays, interest of the moving assistant aids is increased according to the increase in population of the elderly and the handicapped person. However some of the moving assistant aids have problems. For example, manual wheelchair has difficulty moving at the slope, because users lack the muscular strength of their arm. In electric wheelchair case, users should be weak by being decreased muscles of upper body. To overcome these problems, power-assisted electric wheelchair are proposed. Most of the power-assisted electric wheelchair have the special rims that can measure the user's power. In here, the rims have to be designed to install the sensors to measure user's power. In this paper, we don't design the rim to measure the man power. To predict the man power, we propose a control algorithm of the in-wheeled electric wheelchair by using torque estimation from the wheel. First, we measure the wheel velocity and voltage at the in-wheel electric wheelchair. And then we extract driving will forces by using proposed mathematical model. Also they are applied at the controller as the control input, we verify to be able to control in-wheel type smart wheelchair by using simulation.
Keywords
In-wheeled electric wheelchair; Power Assist; Torque Estimation; Wheel Velocity; Wheel Control;
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