Mechanical Design of a Wheelchair with Multi-Posture Characteristics

DOI

10.2991/eame-17.2017.44How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rehabilitation; wheelchair; multi-posture; computer simulation

Abstract

At present, an electrical wheelchair cannot meet the needs of patients, like paralyzed patients, who spend most of their time on beds. This paper presents a mechanical design of a wheelchair which can transform to a sitting, lying and standing posture. The standing posture can help patients to reach high place and do exercise. The patients can have rest on it when the wheelchair is lying. In addition, we modeled and simulated the mechanical structure to ensure the reasonableness of the design. Vector equation analytical method is used to conduct kinematic analysis to obtain accurate kinematic properties of structural parts throughout the posture change.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Duojin Wang
AU  - Hongliu Yu
PY  - 2017/04
DA  - 2017/04
TI  - Mechanical Design of a Wheelchair with Multi-Posture Characteristics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Automation and Mechanical Engineering (EAME 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 181
EP  - 185
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/eame-17.2017.44
DO  - 10.2991/eame-17.2017.44
ID  - Wang2017/04
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