Design of portable and accessible platform in charge of wheelchair feedback immersion

Abstract

Rewarded at Laval Virtual 2014, the AccesSim project aims to develop a wheelchair simulator based on Virtual Reality (VR) and a dynamic force-feedback platform, which allows to experience and to evaluate the accessibility in complex urban or property environment. In order to address this issue, the dynamic force-feedback platform should provide haptic and vestibular feedback to various user profiles: from town-planners to wheelchair users. The platform needs to be modular and adjustable to each of these profiles. This article focuses on the dynamic force-feedback platform and specifically on the force-feedback systems used.