Intelligent Wheelchair Resources

• People and labs
  • Benjamin Kuipers' Intelligent Wheelchair, University of Michigan
  • Vladimir Kulyukin, Utah State University
  • Ed LoPresti, AT Sciences, Pittsburgh PA.
  • Nick Roy's Robotic Wheelchair Wiki, MIT CSAIL.
  • Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell (Robot Lab)

• Research centers
  • Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers, University of Pittsburgh
  • Smart Wheelchairs, University of Edinburgh, CALL Scotland.
  • Cambridge University Robotics Language (CURL), applications for the disabled.
  • Cambridge University Inclusive Design, Accessibility, and Rehabilitation Engineering Group
  • Mobility RERC, CATEA, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Simulators
  • USARsim: physical simulator for Urban Search & Rescue
  • Player, Stage, and Gazebo
  • Microsoft Robotics Studio

• Government agencies
  • US DHHS Administration on Aging
  • National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR)
  • US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
  • Texas Dept. of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services

• For-profit companies
  • Balancing wheelchair, (Johnson & Johnson subsidiary)
  • DeKa Research, Dean Kamen's research company.
  • Koester Performance Research, Heidi Koester

• Data on needs
  • Statistics on the Aging Population U.S. Administration on Aging.
    • Projections for Future Growth.
  • LONG-TERM CARE: Aging Baby Boom Generation Will Increase Demand and Burden on Federal and State Budgets.,
    U.S. General Accounting Office report GAO-02-544T, 2002.
  • Disability statistics, U.S. Census Bureau
  • Disability Statistics, NIDRR-funded center, Cornell University
  • Cooper & Cooper, Trends and Issues in Wheeled Mobility Technologies

• Tools
  • Andrew Moore's ML and DM tutorials

Suggestions I have received

• Directories of service agencies
  • home health care resources.
  • TX home health care agencies.
  • TX skilled nursing facilities.
  • TX adult day care.
  • TX assisted living facilities.

• Other resources for people with disabilities and their caregivers
  • Keeping a Loved One with a Disability Safe
  • Assistive Technology Makes Cars Accessible for People with Disabilities
  • Renting a Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle

Broken links from several years ago, kept to track down replacements:

• NavChair (U. Michigan).
• Omnidirectional Wheelchair, Hagen University, Germany.
• Quickie Wheelchairs. Programming wheelchair parameters: v and a.
• Das Forschungsinstitut Technologie-Behindertenhilfe (FTB) (German research on wheelchairs and other AT.)
• Assistive Technology On-Line, U. Delaware.
• SINTEF (Norway) wheelchair + arm + navigation.
• Wheelchair-mounted manipulators, list of, U. Delaware, AT-online.
• TeamRehab. Industry magazine.
• National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials, Oklahoma State University. Excellent index to online resources.
• Evan Kemp Associates, Inc. Disability resources, products, and services.
• Links re mobility and access (from Bruno Corp.) Fair index to resources.