<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.element14.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Intelligent Wheelchair:</title><link>/challenges-projects/design-challenges/smarter-life/b/blog/posts/intelligent-wheelchair</link><description>My Wheelchair project needs obstacle detection along the travel path of the wheelchair. It is also needed to see that the floor is even and to detect stairs and dead ends of the floor for safety. Three sensors are planned for this purpose. The ...</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Intelligent Wheelchair:</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/smarter-life/b/blog/posts/intelligent-wheelchair</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 20:01:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ca5f880e-af55-4fc4-be4e-d8dd482c52e7</guid><dc:creator>vsluiter</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Mani, on re-reading your blog post I thought that you could also use an IDAC and a resistor to set the threshold for the detection. That way you can have control of the detection threshold from the PSOC, and adapt the threshold if necessary.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16770&amp;AppID=105&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Intelligent Wheelchair:</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/smarter-life/b/blog/posts/intelligent-wheelchair</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:20:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ca5f880e-af55-4fc4-be4e-d8dd482c52e7</guid><dc:creator>DAB</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice update.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You might want to include a still camera to look down at what lies in the path of the chair and do some simple object detection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I worry that the sonic detectors might miss things like big pebbles, sticks or other small obstacles that could cause you problem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DAB&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16770&amp;AppID=105&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Intelligent Wheelchair:</title><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/smarter-life/b/blog/posts/intelligent-wheelchair</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:52:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ca5f880e-af55-4fc4-be4e-d8dd482c52e7</guid><dc:creator>vsluiter</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello Mani,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Can you please repost this in the Cypress PSOC Kits blog? Thanks!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16770&amp;AppID=105&amp;AppType=Weblog&amp;ContentType=0" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>