Comprehensive review of smart wheelchairs for quadriplegic patients

Year 2025, Volume: 67 Issue: 1, 84 - 106

Onur Koçak , Ömürhan Soysal , Buse Çamlıca , Cansel Fıçıcı , Mehmet Serdar Güzel

https://doi.org/10.33769/aupse.1536856

Abstract

Quadriplegia is a disease that causes the person to lose them motor movements over time thus their limbs becoming unable to move. Up to date, many smart wheelchair projects have been put forward so that individuals with this disease can control their wheelchairs by their own. In this review paper, projects and patents related to smart wheelchairs are examined and evaluated. A varied of different methods have been used for the development of novel smart wheelchair technology. Some of these are based on controlling the mechanism using eye movements and head movements. Other smart wheelchair designs incorporate both brain activation and mobile device control. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the development methods of smart chairs in detail and to compare them in terms of their effects on human health and usefulness.

Keywords

Smart wheelchair, quadriplegic patients, paralysis, hands-free controller

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