This document discusses the design and fabrication of a multi-purpose wheelchair for disabled persons. It aims to create a wheelchair that can climb stairs and travel uneven terrain more easily than existing manual wheelchairs. The wheelchair will use a rocker bogie mechanism and electric motor to climb stairs and move smoothly on rough surfaces. The design seeks to make an affordable indigenous wheelchair for disabled individuals in India to increase their mobility over architectural barriers.
This document discusses the design and fabrication of a multi-purpose wheelchair for disabled persons. It aims to create a wheelchair that can climb stairs and travel uneven terrain more easily than existing manual wheelchairs. The wheelchair will use a rocker bogie mechanism and electric motor to climb stairs and move smoothly on rough surfaces. The design seeks to make an affordable indigenous wheelchair for disabled individuals in India to increase their mobility over architectural barriers.
This document discusses the design and fabrication of a multi-purpose wheelchair for disabled persons. It aims to create a wheelchair that can climb stairs and travel uneven terrain more easily than existing manual wheelchairs. The wheelchair will use a rocker bogie mechanism and electric motor to climb stairs and move smoothly on rough surfaces. The design seeks to make an affordable indigenous wheelchair for disabled individuals in India to increase their mobility over architectural barriers.
This document discusses the design and fabrication of a multi-purpose wheelchair for disabled persons. It aims to create a wheelchair that can climb stairs and travel uneven terrain more easily than existing manual wheelchairs. The wheelchair will use a rocker bogie mechanism and electric motor to climb stairs and move smoothly on rough surfaces. The design seeks to make an affordable indigenous wheelchair for disabled individuals in India to increase their mobility over architectural barriers.
Design and Fabrication of Multi-purpose wheelchair for disabled person
INTRODUCTION
One-fifth of the estimated global population, i.e. between 110 million and 190 million people, experience significant disabilities. Wheelchair is used by people who have difficulty in mobility. Generally people who use are, Lower limb disabled people, Patients at the hospitals, Elderly people. It helps to physically disabled person to move more flexibility and comfortably. In this project, wheelchair is multipurpose such as climb up and down, turns right and left and It is useful for uneven terrain condition like a waviness areas, mountain areas etc.In multipurpose wheelchair, rocker bogie mechanism are use. This mechanism is help to climb stair and smoothly move on to uneven terrain that is rough surface such as mountain areas etc. This wheelchair is not a manually. In this project, power is generate use DC geared motor and this motor help to moves wheelchair therefore it is also known as motor operated wheelchair. The person on the power wheelchair can sit in comfort while it climbs the stairs but those wheelchairs are not available in India. Even if they can be imported from other countries the total cost would be very high (i.e. around 9 lakhs). Hence an attempt is required to make an indigenous and cost effective stair- climbing wheelchair.
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LITERATURE SURVEY
[1] The manual stair-climbing wheelchair found through an internet search is
Vardaan. Figure is a wheelchair designed by a group of four engineering students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Vardaan is capable of climbing a wing of stairs by pulling on handle bars connected to sets of “Y” shaped wheels. The power arms are connected to ratchets and braking systems making a safe and stable climb and descend.
[2] The first type of wheelchairs use wheels or clusters of wheels to climb. Fig. shows the TGR Scoiattolo 2000 Wheelchair [6]. This wheelchair is capable of carrying a paraplegic person upstairs with the help of an assistant. An assistant refers to an adult individual who assists the user (paraplegic user) to climb or descend the staircase.This type of wheelchair is power wheelchair. It is very costly The TRG Scoiattolo 2000 Wheelchair is equipped with a set of batteries and motors used to ascend and descent stairs.
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[3] The stair climbing rocker bogie suspension system is very efficient for stair climbing wheelchair. The rocker bogie mechanism is useful for climb a stair and wheelchair smoothly moves on to uneven terrain that is rough ground surface as well as waviness, mountain areas etc. This mechanism is research topic for used in wheelchair. This system is designed by G.Shanmugasundar ,S.Adithya ,V.Nagappan ,P.Jagadeeshwar4,M.Bhaskar Department of Mechanical Engineering,SriSai Ram Institute of Technology, Chennai -44 , Tamil Nadu, India.
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. PROBLEM DEFINATION
One of the basic problems of user on manual wheelchair is overcoming
architectural barriers (kerbs, stairs etc.) ,From the many types of stair climbing wheelchairs, we can see that some of them like Manuscale, Vardaan wheelchairs use manual method for movement and high effort might be needed to climb the stairs.
OBJECTIVE
To design and fabricate a stair-climbing wheelchair for differently-
abled person with lower limb disability in order to increase their mobility. Wheelchair easy to climb the stairs and it moves smoothly on to uneven terrain that is rough surface for example, waviness areas, mountain areas etc. Wheelchair is economical is compared to the product in the existing market.
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CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Fig. Frame of wheelchair
Project Guide: Project coordinator HOD
(____________) (____________) (___________) Mr. Mahesh Kale Mr. Ashish Chaudhari Mr, Balagouda Patil
