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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.

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Author:Michael Hinderer, Petra FriedrichGND, Bernhard Wolf
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
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