NCT05459779

Evaluation of a Robotic Assistance Module Against Positive and Negative Obstacles for Driving Electric Wheelchair

Evaluation of a Robotic Assistance Module for Driving Electric Wheelchairs Allowing the Avoidance of Positive and Negative Obstacles on the Driving Safety of Patients With Neurological Disorders.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pôle Saint Hélier · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The device that is the subject of this investigation is a robotic assistance module for driving a semi-autonomous electric wheelchair. This module is designed to accessorize the electric wheelchair to improve the safety conditions when driving an electric wheelchair, which on the one hand reduces the accident rate of wheelchair and on the other hand and facilitates the access to the wheelchair to people who cannot claim it without the use of a safety device of this type. The robotic assistance module is programmed to detect positive and negative obstacles.

Detailed description

The device that is the subject of this investigation is a robotic assistance module for driving a semi-autonomous electric wheelchair. This module is designed to accessorize the electric wheelchair to improve the safety conditions when driving an electric wheelchair, thus reducing the wheelchair accident rate on the one hand and facilitating access to the wheelchair to persons who can not claim it without the use of a safety device of this type. The robotic assistance module is program to detect positive and negative obstacles. This study "SWADAPT3" follows "SWADAPT1" and "SWADAPT2" with patients with Neurological Disorders, Regular Drivers of Electric Wheelchairs, in the same conditions: Each patient included tested a wheelchair equipped with a collision avoidance assistance module in 2 conditions, assistance activated or not. This evaluation was carried out in 3 standardized test circuits of increasing difficulty, one week apart. At each session, the patient performed the circuit 6 times, including 3 with activated assistance, in a random order established upstream.

Conditions

• Neurological Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Electric wheelchair with activated assistance module	This evaluation will be carried out in 1 standardized test circuit composed by 9 platforms of increasing difficulty. The same day, the patient will perform the circuit 4 times, including 2 with activated assistance.
DEVICE	Electric wheelchair with assistance module not activated	This evaluation will be carried out in 1 standardized test circuit composed by 9 platforms of increasing difficulty. The same day, the patient will perform the circuit 4 times, including 2 without activating assistance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-08
• Primary completion: 2022-07-12
• Completion: 2022-07-12
• First posted: 2022-07-15
• Last updated: 2023-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France