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A study on a shared control navigation system: human/robot collaboration for assisting people in mobility

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC) and FEDER funds, project No. TEC2006-11689-C01/TCM and also by EU STREP project SHARE-IT IST-045088. All experiments have been previously authorised by the FSL ethical committee. The authors would like to thank FSL and all volunteers for their kind cooperation and Sauer Medica S.L. for providing the power wheelchair.

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  1. Department of Psychology, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Galluppi & Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

  2. E.T.S.I. Telecomunicacion, Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain

    Cristina Urdiales & Francisco Sandoval

  3. Centro Andaluz de Innovación y Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Malaga, Spain

    Isabel Sanchez-Tato

  4. ECONA – Interuniversity Centre for Research on Cognitive Processing in Natural and Artificial Systems, Rome, Italy

    Marta Olivetti Belardinelli

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Galluppi, F., Urdiales, C., Sanchez-Tato, I. et al. A study on a shared control navigation system: human/robot collaboration for assisting people in mobility. Cogn Process 10 (Suppl 2), 215–218 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-009-0274-y

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