• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.5878-5904
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• 2017

This paper proposes a novel intelligent wheelchair vehicle system that enables upper limb exercises, lower limb standing exercises and rehabilitation training in a daily life. The proposed system, which can be used to prevent at least the degeneration of body movements and further atrophy of musculoskeletal system functions, considers the characteristics and mobility of the old and the disabled. Its main purpose is to help the old and the disabled perform their daily activities as much as they can, minimizing the extent of secondary disabilities. In other words, the system will provide the old and the disabled with regular and quantitative rehabilitation exercises and diagnosis using the wheelchair-based upper/lower limb rehabilitation vehicle system and then verify their effectiveness. The system comprises an electric wheelchair, a biometric module to identify individual characteristics, and an upper/lower limb rehabilitation vehicle. In this paper the design and configuration of the developed vehicle is described, and its operation method is presented. Moreover, to verify the tracking performance of the proposed system, dangerous situations according to biosignal changes occurring during the rehabilitation exercise of a non-disabled examinee are analyzed and the performance of the upper/lower limb rehabilitation exercise function depending on muscle strength is evaluated through a neural network algorithm.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.39-52
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• 2024

The development of autonomous driving technology is expected to bring about a major change in the mobility rights of the transportation vulnerable. It is very important to identify user requirements in developing autonomous vehicles and service technologies for the transportation vulnerable. User requirements were derived for the wheelchair disabled and the walking disabled. Through focus interviews, a total of 58 requirements were derived for wheelchair-using disabled people and 53 requirements for walking disabled people. A Kano survey was conducted on 33 wheelchair disabled and 34 walking disabled. After that, the quality types of functional requirements in terms of autonomous vehicles and service environment development were analyzed using the Kano model. Priority analysis was conducted on the functions required by the wheelchair disabled and the walking disabled. The results of this study can be used as basic data to determine the priorities of user function requirements in the early stages of autonomous vehicle and service technology development.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.32-42
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• 2017

The aim of this study was to evaluate driving performance of Healthy and disabled groups (with or without driver's license) to control steering wheel by using steering assistive devices in the driving simulator. The persons with partial loss of use of all four limbs have problems in operation of the motor vehicle because of functional loss to operate steering wheel. Therefore, if steering assistive devices for grasping the steering wheel are used to control the vehicle on the road in persons with disabilities, the disabled persons can improve mobility in their community life by driving a motor vehicle safely. Ten healthy subjects (with or w/o driver's license) and ten subjects with physical disabilities (with or w/o driver's license) were involved in this study to evaluate driving performance to operate steering wheel by using four types of steering assistive devices (Single-pin, V-grip, Palm-grip, Tri-pin) in driving simulator. STISim Drive 3 software was used to test the steering performance in four scenarios: straight road at low and high speed of vehicle (40 km/h and 80 km/h), curved road at low and high speed of vehicle (40 km/h and 80 km/h). This study used two-way ANOVA in order to compare the effects of two factors (type of steering assistive device and subject group) in the three dependent variables of driving performance (the lateral position of vehicle, standard deviation of lateral position representing the variation of the left and right movement of the vehicle and the number of line crossing). The mean values of the three dependent variables (lateral position, standard deviation of lateral position, the number of line crossing) of steering performance were statistically significantly smaller for the healthy or disabled groups with driver's license than the other groups without driver's license on the curved road at high speed of vehicle compared to low speed of vehicle.

• 재활복지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.141-161
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• 2016

본 연구는 17명의 장애인 보호자 및 장애인 탑승자를 대상으로 레이(Ray)의 실험 복지차량 사용 시 문제점을 예측하여 개선하기 위한 연구로써, 실험 복지차량 이용 시 18개의 주요 사용성 평가항목을 통해 실제 소비자인 장애를 고려하기 위해 장애인 보호자 및 장애인 탑승자 관점에 기초한 인간공학적 설계를 위한 기준을 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구 결과를 보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 레이(Ray) 실험 복지차량의 만족도와 자기 소유차량 만족도 비교에서 장애인보호자군의 자가 소유차량만족도가 3.20점보다 실험복지차량 만족도가 3.88점으로 더 높았으며, 또한 장애인 탑승자군에서 장애인 자기소유차량만족도가 3.00점보다 실험 복지차량 만족도가 3.31점으로 더 높은 것으로 나타났다. 이는 장애인 보호자 및 장애인 탑승자를 위한 실험복지차량이 이들의 장애특성에 대한 불편사항을 해소한 복지차량개발이라고 볼 수 있다. 둘째, 장애인 보호자 및 장애인탑승자에게 적합한 복지차량을 개발하려면 조수석의 경우 수전동회전업시트가 필요하거나 아니면 차량 후석 슬로프를 통해 장애인을 수?전동 휠체어 탄 상태로 휠체어잠금장치, 휠체어 안전벨트, 휠체어 안전 손잡이, 하이루프 등이 차량 설계부터 장애를 고려하는 것이 필요하였다. 셋째, 후석 슬로프의 경우 차량의 전고높이(하이루프)와 수동 및 전동휠체어의 전폭을 고려하여야 하며, 휠체어 잠금장치의 경우 사용자의 휠체어를 안전하게 고정하여 견인할 수 있는 전동장치가 고려되어야 할 것이다. 또한 전동슬라이드업시트와 후석 슬로프는 휠체어 장애인과 고령자 등 대상자에 맞게 선택할 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.231-240
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• 1987

This Paper introduces a new design of motorized wheel chair for the disabled, which is intended to improve the quality of the disabled's indoor life. This vehicle was based on high manoeuvrability of the omnidirectional drive and saftey. Usually, the vehicle controlled by a joystick but also the voice control system to be prepared for the severely disabled. This voice control system responds to the result of voice recognition, state of system or warning of dangers with voices, which has real time response and 95.3% recognition ratio and satisfactory synthesis voice Quality Therefore this system is able to provide independency in driving and the disabled's daily life.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.124-133
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• 2021

Objective: In order to secure the right to walk for the weak, such as the disabled, this study aims to suggest ways to improve the pedestrian environment by identifying factors that cause obstacles to walking. Design: Data Analysis and Perception Survey. Methods: The questionnaire was conducted separately between users of personal mobility vehicle and non-users. A total of 207 effective questionnaires were collected, and the analysis analyzed the perception of personal mobility vehicle by conducting frequency analysis using SAS 9.4. The survey focused on basic information on respondents, walking conditions, understanding of personal mobility vehicle, awareness of pedestrian space passage and parking, and awareness of the possibility of securing pedestrian rights due to new regulations. Results: First, when moving a pedestrian path by personal mobility vehicle, it shall be limited to less than the walking speed of pedestrians. Second, the parking location of the personal mobility vehicle is located at the boundary of the pedestrian road and the lane. Third, pay a fair price to park in a pedestrian space. Conclusions: It is necessary to improve the system to strengthen the contents of education to take into account the safety of pedestrians in education on how to use personal mobility vehicle.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권11호
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• pp.1265-1271
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• 2011

These days the number of aged and disabled people is increasing rapidly. But most of the disabled or the aged who have the ability to work, want to engage in economic activities and solve social restrictions as well as their bad financial conditions. This paper concerns about the tracking control of an electric wheelchair robot for welfare vehicle where the seat and electric wheelchair are separated and electric wheelchair robot must be autonomously controlled without the help of assistant. So the aged or the disabled people can drive welfare vehicle by himself by adopting this system. Therefore the concept of both an autonomous driving of electric wheelchair and path tracking robots is required in this system. Finally we suggested fuzzy controller in order to control the path tracking of electric wheelchair robot and compared the capability of the proposed controller with conventional PID controller.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2008

This study attempts to develop improved ingress and egress in vehicle for disabled wheelchair people who driving is available, after investigating the ingress and egress relation demand and the inconvenient factor in the vehicle. An experiment was performed for that disabled wheelchair people to analyze the characteristics of ingress and egress relation operation through the questionnaire survey and the camera photographing. The results suggest various improvements possibilities in inside handlebar as a main factor. Through analysis of disabled wheelchair person's ingress and egress tendency, the alternative shape and position of inside handlebar are suggested. Also, this paper aimed to draw ingress and egress improvement proposal by executing a verification experiment and collecting the preferences from disabled people.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.475-480
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• 2010

The safety step has been developed to ensure the passengers' safety including the disabled and the weak by eliminating gap between vehicle and platform. The type of safety step is divided according to the position that the safety step is installed. The type of safety step attached platform is the rubber type that is previously attached to a platform. The installed rubber can reduces the gap between vehicle and platform by a fixed distance. If the safety step is installed on the vehicle, it is possible to respond to the various platform typed such as straight or curved form. It is also flexible to the height of riding depends on number of passenger and platform conditions and does not require crew's additional operation. We have been developed vehicle attached safety step for advanced electric multiple unit. We hope to increase the use of safety step for the disabled and the weak to expand the convenience use of railway transportation system.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1963-1970
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• 2014

본 연구는 특별교통수단을 이용하고 있는 장애인들의 만족도와 장애인들의 장애수용과 삶의 질에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 살펴보기 위한 조사연구이다. 이를 위해 제주특별자치도 교통약자이동지원센터의 차량을 이용하는 장애인을 대상으로 설문조사하였으며, 최종분석에는 총81부가 사용되었다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS 18.0을 이용하여, 기술통계 및 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 분석결과, 특별교통수단을 이용하는 이유로 휠체어 리프트 차량이라는 응답이 제일 많았으며, 특별교통수단 만족도의 수준에서도 휠체어와 관련된 안전성이 가장 높았다. 반면 이용절차와 관련된 편리성은 만족도가 가장 낮았다. 특별교통수단 만족도 중 안전성이 높을수록 삶의 질(만족감과 의식주)에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 장애인의 특별교통수단 만족도를 높이고 장애인의 삶의 질을 향상시키기 위해 이동권 확보를 위한 휠체어 리프트 차량 추가 지원과 안전 운행 및 이용절차의 개선이 필요하다.