Paralympic Spectator Support Case 1

Abstract

Assistive technology (AT), which is a support technology to overcome various difficulties in the life of the elderly and person with disability, has required as the indispensable technical field. Under such a situation, an AT project was set in the project for developing innovative human resources of Nagaoka University of Technology. The purpose of the collaborative project in the AT project is to development of an automated wheelchair with sensors that can secure move in the crowd. In this paper, we report about the status monitoring technology of a wheelchair.