Liberation

It is inevitable for any country to have people with disabilities or have trouble with standing up, especially arthritis patients. The most common used devices for disabled people are wheelchairs. What’s more, the life quality of disabled people and patients has caught attention by society. Modernized wheelchair has become a popular engineering challenge for decades.

We aimed to design a new mechanical system in wheelchair to help people stand up to provide them with further support, a manual-elevating wheelchair, currently unavailable, will be explored through research, design, and prototype modeling.

The goal of this project is to provide an economical and lightweight alternative to existing wheelchairs that provide the user, in this case an assembly line worker, the same reach capabilities as a standing person as well as the same mobility from a lightweight manual wheelchair.