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Electronic Locomotion Aids for the Blind: Towards More Assistive Systems
This chapter first presents a review of existing locomotion assistance devices for the blind. These devices are merely proximeters, that measure the... -
1 Advances in Human-Friendly Robotic Technologies for Movement Assistance/Movement Restoration for People with Disabilities
Rehabilitation robots (RR) are expected to play an important role toward the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. Such... -
22 A Gentle/S Approach to Robot Assisted Neuro-Rehabilitation
Movement disorders (MD) include a group of neurological disorders that involve neuromotor systems. MD can result in several abnormalities ranging... -
23 Wire Driven Robots for Rehabilitation
In the last decades many attempts were made to employ robots or automatic mechanisms in the field of rehabilitation. In particular, orthopaedic... -
9 Enhancing the Usability of the MANUS Manipulator by Using Visual Servoing
Controlling MANUS, a wheelchair-mounted manipulator, can put a high cognitive load on the end user. Visual servoing techniques can help to reduce... -
7 Cooperative Welfare Robot System Using Hand Gesture Instructions
This paper explains the cooperative work system between manipulators and humans using hand gesture instructions. The goal of our system is that the... -
Introduction
This book is written in two major parts. The first part includes the introductory chapters consisting of Chaps. 1 through 8. In part two, Chaps.... -
Machine Shop II
This chapter continues the machine shop model discussed in the previous chapter. Management is considering a radical change in the machine shop... -
Inventory Control I
This single item multi-period inventory model is shown in Fig. 16.1. This problem will be expanded and also studied in the next chapter. These... -
Machine Servicing Problem
The machine servicing problem is shown in Fig. 14.1 and a basic description can be found in almost any operations research book ([1] p. 573(.... -
A Bus Stop
We have plenty of complaints about a certain bus stop. People can not get on the bus because when it stops it is already too crowded. We could add... -
Bank Teller Problem
This is a classical problem in queuing theory: should there be multiple queues, one for each teller in a bank, or should we have one single queue for... -
Life Insurance: New Account Model
This problem was derived from an example in [1]. The system is shown in Fig. 15.1. This figure shows how this insurance company handles an... -
Introduction to Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic
This chapter surveys preliminary notions and results that we use in subsequent chapters. We pay more attention to concepts which might not be well... -
Information Technology for Deaf People
In our modern information and communication society, daily life would be unthinkable without technology. Information and Communications Technology... -
Algebras with Fuzzy Equalities
The present chapter studies algebras with fuzzy equalities. Briely speaking, an algebra with fuzzy equality is a set equipped with a fuzzy equality... -
Fuzzy Horn Logic
Implications between identities have been widely studied in universal algebra. There are numerous results on implicationally defined classes of... -
Multimedia Communication System for the Blind
A Multimedia communication system for blind users is developed. The system is named MIMIZU and its terminal is composed of a refreshable tactile... -
15 Experimental Analysis of the Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Sensors of an Underactuated Prosthetic Hand
The development of a prosthetic hand able to replicate as much as possible the gras** and sensory features of the natural hand represents an... -
3 Toward a Human-Friendly User Interface to Control an Assistive Robot in the Context of Smart Homes
The design of robot dedicated to person with disabilities necessitates users implication in all steps of product development: design solution,...