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Design Of An Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch Using An Inertial Measurement Unit, Ethan Storm Williams
Design Of An Assistive Technology Adaptive Switch Using An Inertial Measurement Unit, Ethan Storm Williams
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
A new assistive technology switch for people with disabilities was developed utilizing an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as the sensor technology. The hardware can be customized through firmware to provide custom switch activations on a person by person basis. The firmware is customized to recognize specific data features in the IMU data which identify the desired switch activation movement performed by the user. In this way, the switch can be adapted to activate based on the movements of the user. During this research, the generic hardware platform, including the IMU sensor technology and Bluetooth communications, was designed and tested. An …