BECAPE Project Research
(LISV Laboratory, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
Driving for everyone
Adapted car driving strongly contributes to mobility and independence for people with disabilities. It plays an important role in their insertions within our company. The car is an access to work, to services, to healthcare ...
The BECAPE project research (Banc d’Evaluation de la Conduite Automobile et Préconisation des Equipements or Driving Assessment and Equipment Recommendation Bench ) was launched in January 2011 with the support of the MAIF foundation by the LISV laboratory (Systems Engineering Laboratory of Versailles) and by the CEREMH association ( Resource and Innovation Center Mobility Handicap) in order to help improve access to modified driving for people with disabilities.
Through this project, two simulation platforms ("BECAPE ECO" and “BECAPE LIGHT”) were produced. These measurement tools allow support therapists and physicians from rehabilitation centers in assessment of driving ability and in the recommendation of assistance equipment to the conduct available on the market.
The ecological version (BECAPE ECO) offers a situation close to the vehicle road. It allows several possibilities of configuration of evaluation or rehabilitation. The other light version (BECAPE LIGHT) allows you to quickly assess the motor or cognitive capacities essential to the activity of driving. The devices are also used as mediation tools between therapist and patient as well as to promote access to adapted driving.
Contact : olivier.rabreau@lisv.uvsq.fr