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Project Overview
The purpose of this project is to develop a manual-powered wheelchair that can be operated by stroke patients or any other individual who has a reduced capacity to perform bilateral operation of a standard manual wheelchair. Typical wheelchairs are not easily used by individuals who lack full use of both upper extremities. The desired wheel chair will enable stroke patients to independently power and steer the manual chair. While there is a specific customer in mind for this project, it is expected that successful development of such a wheelchair will benefit a wide variety of patients. It is not expected that students will design the chair completely from scratch. Instead, the expectation is that the students will develop a design that modifies existing manually operated wheelchairs to achieve the desired functionality.
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Administrative Information
- Project Name
- Manually Operated Wheelchair for Stroke Patients
- Project Number
- P09009
- Project Family
- Assistive Devices
- Track
- Assistive Devices and Bioengineering
- Start Term
- 2008-2
- End Term
- 2008-3
- Faculty Guide
- Matthew Marshall (ISE)
- Faculty Consultant
- Elizabeth DeBartolo (ME)
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
- Sanjay Palit
- Primary Customer
- Bob Brinkman
- Secondary Customers
- Jack Allen, Stroke Patients, and Matt Marshall
- Customer Contact Information
- 475-7260, mmmeie@rit.edu
Team
From left to right:
Matthew Marshall (Faculty Guide), Bradley Stroka (IE), Sean Bodkin (IE), Nicholas Rehbaum (ME), Michelle Allard (ME), Alex Vogler (ME), Deborah Chen (IE), Bob Brinkman (Customer)
Senior Design I Documents
Week 1Week 5-System Level Design Review
Week 10-Detailed Design Review
Senior Design II Documents
Technical DrawingsPlanning
Download Project Readiness Package
Intellectual Property Considerations
Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure
Concept Development
Set Preliminary Specifications