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People who suffer from paresis, tremor, spasticity etc. may experience considerable difficulties when driving electric wheel chairs. A sensor-based wheel chair may assist these users in their daily driving manoeuvres. There are two extreme cases: on the one hand, the wheel chair can be fully in control and on the other, the user can be fully in control. It is however difficult to determine a suitable level of shared autonomy situated in between these two extreme cases. This paper presents a framework for shared autonomy and addresses the issue of assessing the user’s autonomy.
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Nuttin, M., Demeester, E., Vanhooydonck, D., Van Brussel, H. (2001). Shared Autonomy for Wheel Chair Control: Attempts to Assess the User’s Autonomy. In: Levi, P., Schanz, M. (eds) Autonome Mobile Systeme 2001. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56787-2_17
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