New Modular System Places Handicapped Operators in Standard Auto Seats and
   Stows Their Wheelchairs While They Drive 
From: Medical News Today - 12/26/2006

Engineers at Lehigh and Carnegie Mellon universities, working with a
Philadelphia-based start-up, have integrated robotics, laser and wireless
technologies into a new system that promises to make it safer and cheaper for
wheelchair users to drive a car. 

Read read the entire article at:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=58905

Links:
Automatic Transport and Retrieval System for Power Wheelchairs
http://www.resna.org/ProfResources/Publications/Proceedings/2005/Research/SM/LoPresti.php

Vision-based Control for the Automated Transport and Retrieval System
http://vader.cse.lehigh.edu/projects/atrs/

Robotics, Laser And Wireless Technologies Make Driving Safer For Wheelchair
   Users 
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061212212548.htm

John Spletzer
http://www.freedomsciences.com/?page_id=team

Submitted by Robert Van Etten
