... placed onto a variable switch) then a wheelchair progressively increased speed. David A. Sanders can be contacted at: david.sanders@port.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Control technology Wheelchairs Transducers Man machine interface Powered‐wheelchairs...

... this point the value is considered constant. On the other hand, the achieved trajectory was made in more than seven points, thus the position remained constant after point 12. José González can be contacted at: Jegv07@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Man machine interface...

... can be contacted at: pedro.neto@robotics.dem.uc.pt © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Functional programming Robotics Man machine interface Neural nets Several experiments were performed to verify the viability of this system in a non‐controlled environment (industrial...

... machine interface Control technology A brain‐computer interface (BCI) is a device, which allows a person to control an external mechanical or electrical device by thought. BCIs read signals from the brain's neurons and use computer algorithms to translate them into action. BCI research began...

... Robotics Man machine interface Computer networks Control systems Since robots are developed, they are used in various applications and take on many different forms. Recently, a scheme called brain‐computer interface (BCI), integrated of medicine and engineering, appears possible to provide a new...

... including details about the speech recognizer, person tracking and gesture recognition, can be found in (Stiefelhagen et al., 2004). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Man machine interface Robotics Artificial intelligence Recently, there has been growing interest...

... project at MIT. Brian Rooks can be contacted at: brianrooks@btinternet.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Robotics Man machine interface The world's first industrial robot, the hydraulically powered Unimate developed in the late‐1950s, was designed as a replacement...

... at: hzaman@grad.nii.ac.jp © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Robotics Man machine interface Recently, human‐robot symbiotic systems have been studied extensively due to the increase of demand of welfare service for the aged and handicapped under the situation of decreasing...

... commercially viable in the immediate future. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Man machine interface Image sensors Tactile sensors Haptically explorable tactile displays in conjunction with ultrasound elastography would allow surgeons to examine hard sectors contained within soft tissue, and thereby...

... research, and robot rehabilitation. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Man machine interface Robotics Admittance control is the inverse of impedance control, hence the name. In admittance control, the paradigm is this: the user exerts a force on the haptic device, and the device will react...

.... Farms Robotics Inspection Man machine interface The advent of agricultural robots has the potential of raising the quality of the fresh produce, lowering the production costs and reducing the drudgery of manual labor (Edan, 1999). Despite the tremendous amount of robotic applications...