Awards

The Intellwheels Intelligent Wheelchair Prototype and its flexible multi-modal interface and realistic 3D simulator won five awards during the project: second place at Festival Nacional de Robótica at the international competition Freebots at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Galardão da Inclusão at the category Applied Investigation; first Honor Mention/2nd Place at the Award "Ser Capaz" of Associação Salvador, honor mention at Jaime Filipe award - Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação and best paper award of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions.

The complete list of awards was the following:

• Second place at Festival Nacional de Robótica at the international competition Freebots, Portuguese Robotics Open, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, April 2011.

• Galardão da Inclusão at the category Applied Investigation, Projecto Intellwheels - Cadeira de Rodas Inteligente com Interface Multimodal Flexível, Teatro José Lúcio da Silva, em Leiria, 3 de Dezembro de 2011, Dia Internacional da Pessoa com Deficiência, Centro de Recursos para a Inclusão Digital (CRID), Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (IPL).

• First Honor Mention/2nd Place at the Award "Ser Capaz" of Associação Salvador, Projeto Intellwheels, Espaço BES Arte & Finança, Lisboa, Portugal, 16 de Janeiro de 2012, 3500 Eur (from the total of 10000 Eur of awards).

• Honor mention at Jaime Filipe award, "Projeto Cadeira de Rodas Inteligente com Interface Multimodal Flexível" - Instituto Nacional para a Reabilitação, Dia Internacional da Pessoa com Deficiência, 3 de Dezembro de 2012.

  • Best Paper Award of the 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions - Robotica 2013: "Manual, Automatic and Shared Methods for Controlling an Intelligent Wheelchair: Adaptation to Cerebral Palsy Users"