User Intent in a Shared Control Framework for Pedestrian Mobility Aids
Majd Alwan, Glenn Wasson, Pradip Sheth, Kevin Granata, Alexandre Ledoux, Cunjun Huang  - May, 2007

Medical Automation Research Center

The primary goal of this work is to augment a user’s ability to walk, not replace it. In this sense, we are seeking to help those who can and want to walk perform this task more safely and easily. As the world’s elderly population rises (doubling in the US alone in the next 30 years [3]) and the cost of healthcare skyrockets (to $4 trillion over the same period [1]), robotic mobility aids increase in importance.

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