Move your eyes and let the wheelchair go! Entrepreneurs use technology to warm "unfreeze" their lives
Do you know the "freezing man"? This is a motor neuron disease. The patient's limbs will gradually lose control, the whole body muscles will atrophy, and in the late stage, the patient will completely lose the ability to exercise. Only the eyeball can move up and down the body, just like being frozen. Stephen Hawking, a famous physicist, is suffering from progressive frostbite. His wheelchair is customized by Intel and other famous companies. Mass production is not allowed. Not every progressive frozen person can get such life assistance. What else can ordinary progressive frozen man do to lift this prison?
In 2017, Professor Jiao Licheng's team from ipiu Laboratory of Xi'an University of Electronic Science and technology received a special email. An alumnus of Xidian Electric Co., Ltd. suffering from progressive frostbite, proposed to Professor Jiao Licheng's team that he would like to create an intelligent travel device that can make people live and take care of themselves. After discussion, Professor Jiao Licheng and leader Dr. Sun Qigong agreed that the concept of intelligent life support system not only conforms to the research direction of Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, but also enables students to apply the knowledge they have learned to product practice and apply the knowledge they have learned to product practice. Therefore, in the summer of 2017, a small team was established to develop intelligent life support system for the gradually frozen population.
After two months of hard work in the summer vacation, they finally developed a kind of Intelligent Wheelchair Based on eye positioning technology, so that people who are gradually frozen can have certain self-care ability. However, the research team found that the safety and portability of wheelchairs still have great problems, which can not guarantee the safe travel of people who are gradually frozen in the absence of caregivers.
In order to ensure that the achievements of the team are truly applied in real life, Professor Jiao Licheng and Dr. Sun Qigong jointly set up a new team of 2018 level master students, including sun long, Bai Yidong, etc. the eye positioning accuracy and driving safety of the second generation of intelligent wheelchair are greatly improved, which can truly walk out of the laboratory, enter real life, and meet the travel needs in life scenes. In order to further enrich the user's life and improve the user's quality of life, the team further launched a smart home wheelchair system based on eye control, and combined with smart home technology. Through the recognition and tracking of eyeball, the system can obtain the information of eyeball focus position, effective gaze time and so on.
Intelligent wheelchair can be commanded by eyeball. It can move by staring at every point on the display screen. It can not only travel, but also control intelligent home with eyeball. As long as you rotate your eyes, you can adjust the air conditioning, TV, music, lighting, and reduce the patient's dependence on care. In view of the situation that people's voice can't be heard in the later stage, the wheelchair also has the remote control voice function. At the same time, the project also added music part, so that people who are gradually frozen can use their own eyes to choose and listen to songs. It's not a dream, you can go out for a walk and "stare." At present, the project has won 11 invention patents, won the second prize of China mobile digital home manufacturer marathon in 2018, and won social recognition.
Hawking has been fighting the disease for 55 years. During this period, he can enjoy the convenience of exclusive wheelchair. Now the technology brought by the team can help more people recover part of their living ability and enjoy a comfortable and convenient intelligent life. Sun long, a member of the research and development team, said that they would adhere to their original intention, innovate constantly, and "thaw" their lives with the warmth of technology, so that people with limited mobility can walk with "eyes" and see more beautiful scenery.
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