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• Published Subscription 7 Jan 2020

  An Optimized Design of the Standard Manual Wheelchair

  By Vishak P V, John Thomas, Manjunath M Mallia, Raj Kumar. E

  Abstract: The manual wheelchair is commonly found in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, senior housing and airports for allowing patients, people with physical disabilities or for elderly people. Transferring mishaps are one of the major causes for injuries. Moreover, all the transferring actions between wheelchair and other surfaces are difficult for wheelchair users. This project is aimed at optimizing the existing design of a standard manual wheelchair by introducing a height adjusting mechanism …

  Published in International Journal of Mechanics and Design · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 1–10 Read article →