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Our team developed a mobile wheelchair control kit designed to allow power wheelchair users the ability to maneuver their wheelchair without the need to manipulate a joystick with their hands. A smartphone and its internal accelerometer sensor was used to detect the vector of gravity, and thus detecting the pitch and roll. The wheelchair control sy...
This paper presents a system for vocational training and assessment of individuals with severe physical disabilities using immersive virtual reality. The system was developed at the University of South Florida’s Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Robotics Technologies (CARRT). A virtual and physical assistive robot was used for the remote-co...
This paper presents a virtual reality for vocational rehabilitation system (VR4VR) that is currently in development at the University of South Florida's Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation, and Robotics Technologies (CARRT). VR4VR utilizes virtual reality to assess and train individuals with severe cognitive and physical disabilities. Using virtua...
In this paper, a virtual reality for vocational rehabilitation (VR4VR) system for individuals with disabilities is presented. VR4VR aims to enable job coaches to use immersive virtual environments to inexpensively and safely assess and train the job skills of individuals with disabilities. Several key system requirements and challenges are discusse...
Obtaining and maintaining employment for persons with severe physical and cognitive disabilities requires collaboration between the worker, job trainer and employer. Often, this is not enough due to safety or other workplace concerns and when the job training is possible, it can be time consuming. Using Virtual Reality for simulating these environm...
This article describes a unique design collaboration between the College of the Arts, School of Theatre and Dance and the Center for Assistive, Rehabilitation & Robotics Technologies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of South Florida, which has resulted
in a patented, hands-free mobility chair for use in multiple populat...
This paper presents a new approach to the driving assessment of persons with disabilities in which an advanced vehicle interface system is introduced. This system combines a six-degree-of-freedom force reflecting haptic device and a commercially available vehicle modification system. Innovative ergonomic tasks are presented to determine the appropr...
The opportunity for a person with disability to drive a vehicle presents a major step towards a full and independent life. In some cases, employment is not possible due to the inability to control a motor vehicle. Unfortunately, today’s driving evaluations are inadequate because of the qualitative techniques used. This paper presents a new approach...
Transportation is an area that needs to be studied from a disability perspective. Different types of barriers exist when it comes to enabling persons with disability to comfortably perform routine activities such as driving a vehicle. Some of these barriers are due to lack of quantitative assessment techniques that will determine physical capabilit...
A 'dynamic motion seat' had been donated to us three years ago from Reflectone The seat is consisted of three actuating cylinders. It can carry a load of 600 lb and produce motions of pitching, rolling and heave. This is an ideal device for building a driving simulator. The mechanism of the dynamic motion seat is very similar to the original design...
Primary users of powered mobility, typically also have upper extremity limitations that impede their ability to perform activities of daily living (ADLs). A wheelchair mounted robotic arm (WMRA) offers the user an option to perform these tasks and become more independent, which makes it essential that the device is effective and efficient. In this...
The USF Capstone Design Course and the Center for Rehabilitation and Technology have collaborated to provide USF students with an outstanding Capstone Design Experience. 1, 2 The content of the course has also been discussed, 3 and the fact that two instructors are necessary to handle the workload has also been addressed. 4 Many of the prototypes t...
Simulators have been proven to be highly effec6ve tools for the purpose of training individuals to accomplish a certain tasks, o;en 6mes when those tasks are cost-‐prohibi6ve, dangerous, or otherwise, imprac6cal. Currently, there exists no safe method for training individuals with disabili6es to drive. This new idea for an integrated simulator wil...