Design of Portable and Accessible Platform in Charge of Wheelchair Feedback Immersion

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.Ile‐De­‐France region, EDF R&D (project leader), LISV (UVSQ), LAMPA (Arts & Métiers ParisTech), CEREMH, CEA-­LIST