Test cycles for the characterization of electrical drives devoted to wheelchair applications

Author

Di Dio, Vincenzo ; Di Tommaso, Antonino O. ; Miceli, Rosario ; Cavallaro, Calogero ; Raciti, Angelo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Palermo Univ., Italy

fYear

2002

fDate

6/24/1905 12:00:00 AM

Abstract

Today electrical wheelchairs are giving valuable increase of the quality of life of disabled people in developed countries. Despite the increasing diffusion of such an aid tool, specific standards for the characterization of their electric drives are not so developed as those available for urban electric vehicles. This paper presents a proposal for the test characterization of a wheelchair drive by means of test cycles with fixed speed trajectories. To this aim, the method, which is well known in the field of automobiles, has been purposely adapted and the obtained simulation results are satisfactory.

Keywords

electric drives; electric vehicles; handicapped aids; standards; disabled people; electrical drives; electrical wheelchairs; fixed speed trajectories; simulation results; standards; test cycles; wheelchair applications; Acceleration; Consumer electronics; Electric vehicles; IEC standards; Internal combustion engines; Performance evaluation; Standards development; Systems engineering and theory; Testing; Wheelchairs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Devices, Circuits and Systems, 2002. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Caracas Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7380-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCDCS.2002.1004102

Filename

1004102