[BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday September 19th - 1 pm- Room 333

[Christophe Grova]

Dear all, 

Our  next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is today 

Wednesday - September 19th,  at 1 pm 


Location: Room  333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 
University Street).


Speaker: Dr. Joelle Pineau PhD, School of Computer Science, McGill University


Title: Designing and validating an intelligent wheelchair towards a clinically-functional outcome

Abstract:
Many people with mobility impairments, who require the use of powered
wheelchairs, have difficulty completing basic maneuvering tasks during
their activities of daily living (ADL). In order to provide assistance to
this population, robotic and intelligent system technologies have been
used to design an intelligent powered wheelchair (IPW).   This talk will
provide a comprehensive overview of the design and validation of the IPW. 
The main contributions of this work are three-fold.  First, we present a
navigation architecture for control in constrained spaces; this is shown
to achieve greater speeds than previous systems in tight spots.  Second,
we describe a decision-theoretic approach for achieving robust
speech-based control of the intelligent wheelchair. Third, we describe an
evaluation protocol motivated by a meaningful clinical outcome, in the
form of the Robotic Wheelchair Skills Test (RWST).  This allows us to
perform a thorough characterization of the performance and safety of the
system, involving 17 test subjects, 32 complete RWST sessions, 25 total
hours of testing, and 9 kilometers of total running distance. As such, the
platform tested in these experiments is among the most experimentally
validated robotic wheelchairs in realistic contexts.

Work in collaboration with P. Boucher, A. Atrash, S. Kelouwani, W. Honoré,
H. Nguyen, J. Villemure, F. Routhier, P. Cohen, L. Demers, R. Forget



A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/news/seminars


See you there



Christophe Grova 



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Christophe Grova, PhD 
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering Dpt 
Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt 

Montreal Neurological Institute
Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques

Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304
McGill University
3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca
tel : (514) 398 2516
fax : (514) 398 7461
 
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