Design of an Automated Multiposition Dynamic Wheelchair

Autor: Jose Israel Sanchez-Cruz, Jose Alfredo Leal-Naranjo, Christopher René Torres-SanMiguel, Juan Carlos Paredes-Rojas, Armando Oropeza-Osornio, Luis Antonio Aguilar-Pérez
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 7533, p 7533 (2021)
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sensors
Volume 21
Issue 22
ISSN: 1424-8220
Popis: This work presents a design for an automatized multiposition dynamic wheelchair used to transport quadriplegic patients by reconfiguring a manual wheelchair structure. An electric actuator is attached to a four-bar mechanism fixed to each side of a wheelchair’s backrest to reach multiposition. The entire device is actuated through a PID controller. An experimental test is carried out in a simplified wheelchair structure. Finally, the structure of the wheelchair is evaluated through the Dynamic analysis and Finite Element Method under the payload computed with the most critical position reached by the mechanism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE