P09009: Manually Operated One-Arm-Powered Wheelchair

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1 Project Overview
2 Administrative Information
3 Team
4 Senior Design I Documents
5 Senior Design II Documents
6 Planning
7 Concept Development
8 System Level Design

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)