Building Smarter Wheelchairs
From: The Institute - IEEE - 06/2013 - page 11
By: Kathy Pretz

Making life a little easier for people who can’t walk

Two IEEE senior members are working on technologies that could give
wheelchair users more independence and a better quality of life. Hung Nguyen
has developed a chair that can be steered by brain waves to help people with
severe spinal cord injuries. Mahesh Krishnamurthy has designed an
environmental-adaptive system to make a robotic wheelchair more aware of its
surroundings, which is meant for those who are parapalegic.

Read the entire article and view a video (0:18) at:
http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-focus/technology-topic/building-smarter-wheelchairs

Links:
ABC: Prof Hung Tan Nguyen, Aviator smart wheelchair inventor, University of
Technology Sydney - video (7:08)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bRaUXn3ibg

Mahesh Krishnamurthy
http://www.iit.edu/engineering/ece/faculty/krishnamurthy_mahesh.shtml