Vulcan: Intelligent Robo-Wheelchair Navigates Autonomously
From: Tech Briefs - 09/07/2016

University of Michigan computer science and engineering professor Ben Kuipers
created Vulcan a few years ago, and now graduate student Colin Johnson and
robotics researcher Jong Jin Park have added innovative new capabilities.
These capabilities include: the ability to learn the spatial structure of the
environment, which allows the robot to efficiently represent its
opportunities for travel in the environment; the ability to plan and carry
out motion in the environment, avoiding both static and dynamic obstacles;
and using its perceptual capabilities to handle the kinds of perceptual
problems that arise in natural human built environments. Vulcan can identify
4,800 changing pathway scenarios per second and uses two LIDAR sensors,
giving it a 360 degree field of view of a rapidly changing environment.

View the video (4:48) at:
http://www.techbriefs.tv/video/Vulcan-Intelligent-Robo-Wheelch

Links:
The Intelligent Wheelchair
https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers/research/wheelchair

Ben Kuipers
http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~kuipers