Design of an Automated Multiposition Dynamic Wheelchair.

Aguilar-Pérez, Luis Antonio ORCID: 0000-0002-7051-0001, Paredes-Rojas, Juan Carlos ORCID: 0000-0003-2465-6939, Sanchez-Cruz, Jose Israel, Leal-Naranjo, Jose Alfredo, Oropeza-Osornio, Armando and Torres-SanMiguel, Christopher Rene ORCID: 0000-0003-0291-7384 (2021) Design of an Automated Multiposition Dynamic Wheelchair. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 21 (22). 7533-.

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Humans, Equipment Design, Wheelchairs
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Jul 2022 14:26
Last Modified:	03 Feb 2024 08:28
DOI:	10.3390/s21227533
Open Access URL:	https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/22/7533
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3159186