Design of an automated multiposition dynamic wheelchair

Luis Antonio Aguilar-Pérez, Juan Carlos Paredes-Rojas, Jose Israel Sanchez-Cruz, Jose Alfredo Leal-Naranjo, Armando Oropeza-Osornio, Christopher Rene Torres-San Miguel

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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 ac-tuator 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 criti-cal position reached by the mechanism.

Original languageEnglish
Article number7533
JournalSensors
Volume21
Issue number22
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2021

Keywords

  • Biomechanics
  • Service robots
  • Wheelchair design

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