Wheelchair.q, a mechanical concept for a stair climbing wheelchair

摘要：

This paper present Wheelchair.q, a concept for a stair climbing wheelchair able to move in structured and unstructured environment, to climb over obstacles and to go up and down stairs. The wheelchair passively changes its locomotion, from a rolling on wheels to a stepping on legs one. The different locomotions are triggered only by local and dynamic conditions and not by an external command and so only one motor for each locomotion unit is necessary. A four-bar linkage moves and rotates the chair, in order to avoid wheelchair turning over and to guarantee a comfortable posture to the passenger.

作者: Giuseppe Quaglia Walter Franco Riccardo Oderio

作者单位: Department of Mechanical Engineering,Politecnico di Torino,Turin,Italy

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics(2009 IEEE 机器人与仿生技术国际会议 ROBIO 2009)

会议地点: 桂林

会议语种:英文

页码: 800-805

在线出版日期: 2009-12-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）