Title :
Design and development of manual wheelchair with obstacle-crossing capability
Author :
Guo, Xuwei ; Hu, Shenghai ; Ying, Lixia
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Mech. & Electr. Eng., Harbin Eng. Univ., Harbin, China
Abstract :
In order to design a new manual wheelchair that can cross over a single step or a threshold, this paper presents several new concepts of wheelchair with specified obstacle-crossing ability and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages; Especially, a wheelchair based on a swing-legged system was studied. The system is foldable, and can complete two phases of crossing motion only by using the same swing link.
Keywords :
collision avoidance; handicapped aids; crossing motion phase; manual wheelchair design; manual wheelchair development; obstacle-crossing capability; swing-legged system; Force; Gears; Leg; Manuals; Tracking; Wheelchairs; Wheels; Manual wheelchair; Obstacle-crossing Capability; Swing-legged system; pantograph leg;
Conference_Titel :
Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8113-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICMA.2011.5985650
