Learning a Control Policy for Fall Prevention on an Assistive Walking Device
Visak C.V. Kumar,Sehoon Ha,Gregory Sawicki,C. Karen Liu,Visak C.V. Kumar,Sehoon Ha,Gregory Sawicki,C. Karen Liu
Fall prevention is one of the most important components in senior care. We present a technique to augment an assistive walking device with the ability to prevent falls. Given an existing walking device, our method develops a fall predictor and a recovery policy by utilizing the onboard sensors and actuators. The key component of our method is a robust human walking policy that models realistic hum...
