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Description

Integrated System for Mobility and Manipulation for Disabled People

Project goals comprise:

  • the demonstration of integrated aids for mobility, manipulation, and computer access; all applying the M3S-Bus system,
  • the evaluation of six different mobile platforms; each consisting of an electrical wheelchair, a robot manipulator, a computer/ environmental control/ navigation system, and and operating device,
  • the information dissemination among end-users, manufacturers, funding institutions, and rehabilitation facilities on the chances and advantages of integrated systems

Consortium

  • TNO Institute of Applied Physics, Netherlands (general project leader)
  • Commissariat a l’Energy Automique, France
  • Exact Dynamics, Netherlands
  • IRV Institute for Rehabilitation Research, Netherlands
  • SSSA Scuola Superiore di studi e die perfezionamento S. Anna, Italy
  • FST Fondation Suisse pour les Teletheses, Switzerland
  • SINTEF Senter for Industriforskning, Norway