Wheelchairs propulsion analysis: review

Smart Wheelchairs - A literature review

This article presents a summary of current state of smart wheelchairs. An assistive technology known as wheelchair is used to deal with loss of mobility for the patients who are not able to walk normally due to some injury or some other age related walking disabilities (permanent or under treatment). There is a vast development in the field of wheelchairs. Researchers are going on to develop re...

Smart wheelchairs: A literature review.

Several studies have shown that both children and adults benefit substantially from access to a means of independent mobility. While the needs of many individuals with disabilities can be satisfied with traditional manual or powered wheelchairs, a segment of the disabled community finds it difficult or impossible to use wheelchairs independently. To accommodate this population, researchers have...

Review of real brain-controlled wheelchairs.

This paper presents a review of the state of the art regarding wheelchairs driven by a brain-computer interface. Using a brain-controlled wheelchair (BCW), disabled users could handle a wheelchair through their brain activity, granting autonomy to move through an experimental environment. A classification is established, based on the characteristics of the BCW, such as the type of electroenceph...

Model identification and dynamic analysis of ship propulsion shaft lines

Dynamic response analysis of mechanical structures is usually performed by adopting numerical/analytical models. Finite element (FE) modeling as a numerical approach plays an important role in dynamic response analysis of complex structures. The calculated dynamic responses from FE analysis are only reliable if accurate FE models are used. There are many elements in real mechanical structures w...

Performance Analysis of Suspension Manual Wheelchairs