An autonomous stair-climbing wheelchair
- Demographic change is making more and more elderly people dependent on care. As a result, there are staff shortages at nursing homes, which now require technical aid. Mobility is considered an essential component for ensuring quality of life, social contact, and a selfdetermined life. With the introduction of the autonomous stair-climbing wheelchair, unlimited and independent mobility is ensured for movement-limited people. Because of dynamic stabilization, the wheelchair moves on only one axis. Thereby, it has highly agile driving behavior and is compact in size. The autonomous climbing system is based on a leg mechanism that consists of two legs with lower and upper leg support. While climbing a stairway, the legs push the wheelchair on the next higher situated step. Afterwards the legs are pulled successively on to the next step as well. While climbing down, the opposite sequence of movements occurs.
Author: | Michael Hinderer, Petra FriedrichGND, Bernhard Wolf |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2017.04.015 |
Identifier: | 0167-8493 OPAC HS OPAC extern |
Parent Title (English): | Robotics and Autonomous Systems |
Subtitle (English): | international journal |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publication: | Amsterdam |
Editor: | K. Berns, M. Gini, J. Ota |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2017/05/13 |
Year of first Publication: | 2017 |
Tag: | autonomous climbing; inverse pendulum; one-axis; stair-climbing; wheelchair |
Volume: | 94 |
Issue: | August 2017 |
Number of pages: | 7 Seiten |
First Page: | 219 |
Last Page: | 225 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Elektrotechnik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften |
Research focus: | FSP4: Soziale Innovationen |
Publication Lists: | Friedrich, Petra |
Research Project: | Living Lab AAL – IBH Living Lab Active and Assisted Living |
Publication reviewed: | begutachtet |
Release Date: | 2021/07/14 |