Vulcan, intelligent robotic wheelchair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Prof. Ben Kuipers, CSE graduate student Collin Johnson, and ME graduate student Jong Jin Park have created Vulcan, an intelligent robotic wheelchair. Vulcan learns the spatial structure of the environment it moves through and it uses that knowledge to plan and follow routes from place to place. Robotic wheelchairs will benefit people who need a wheelchair, but are unable to use one because of multiple disabilities.

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The Vulcan robotic wheelchair is capable of traveling quickly in addition to navigating and learning its environment.

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An intelligent wheelchair capable of autonomous navigation,
VULCAN can identify 4,800 changing pathway scenarios per second and uses 2 lidar sensors giving it a 360° field of view of a rapidly changing environment.

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