The transport of patients from the inpatient service to the operating room is a recurrent task
in a hospital routine. This task is repetitive, non-ergonomic, time consuming, and requires …

Featured Application The telepresence wheelchair system with 360-degree vision can use
for people with disabilities in a variety of healthcare applications. Abstract This paper …

Intelligent wheelchairs are becoming more and more prevalent in contemporary life, and the
peaceful interaction of humans with wheelchairs is one of the most popular research topics …

As the rapidly rising number of elders and disabled people in China, intelligent wheelchairs
become important to enhance the mobility for them. Many advanced technologies are …

Patients who are unable to walk and accident victims need a wheelchair. However, the use
of a wheelchair also needs to be considered about privacy and ease of use. In this paper …

As the proportion of the population comprising the elderly cohort increases, so too does the
demand for medical care for long-term conditions among this demographic. The advent of …

Losing the ability to move is one of the major issues that weaken the independent living
ability of elderly/disabled people. To solve this issue, mobility assistive devices such as …

aging is an inevitable, natural process affecting both inanimate and animate objects. While
inanimate objects crumble, the bodies of animate beings struggle to handle the daily routine …

Designing intelligent devices that can improve people's quality of life can be a worthwhile
task for engineering researchers. Such service for people should start by identifying a …

Aging is an inevitable, natural process that reduces the functionality of the human body over
time. Many tasks become too difficult to handle and the body barely hangs on. One such task …