Track: Product Development
Abstract
A wheelchair is an assistive technology that helps individuals who are unable to move normally owing to injury or other age-related walking impairments (permanent or under treatment). All electric wheel chairs are quite costly and not affordable. Availability of all electric wheel chair will improve the quality of life of the disabled. To make the Electric wheel chair available at lower cost, the possibility of retrofitting a wheel chair is investigated. 24V 13.4A BLDC motors are used and controllers are modified. Speed control is achieved using Arduino, Joystick and L293N motor drivers.