The purpose of this project is to optimize an educational robotics platform built for students to be presented with a meaningful real-world problem: lack of control options available for people with different levels of disabilities to control a wheelchair. For this purpose, the Wi-Fi based wheelchair controlled by an Android application, is optimized. We established a robust wireless communication method and supplemented the multimodal control options with a speed regulation and GPS navigation system. The end- result is an expansible framework that can extend to other robots sold by the sponsoring company at DEPUSH Technology Co. Ltd., based in Wuhan, China.

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Last modified

• 2021-09-11

Creator

• Li, Xia
• Fathima, Ayesha Tazeen

Contributors

• Yuanjun, Yao
• Huiping, Zhang
• Lingsong, He

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-090314-133738

Advisor

• Ciaraldi, Michael J.
• Rong, Yiming

Year

• 2014

Center

• Wuhan, China Project Center - MQP

Sponsor

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Date created

• 2014-09-03

Location

• Beijing

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science
• Robotics Engineering

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