Abstract
According to World Health Organization report approximately 111 million people in the world needs a wheelchair. In order to solve this problem, around the world, are developed open-source products. The first phase of the present project includes the review of state-art and evaluation of similar design proposals around the world. As a result of a search for similar projects, we found some proposals that could be adapted to México, and we decided to analyze two of them; the first one is a proposal made of PVC pipes. The second proposal to analyze is an active-type wheelchair made of plywood. The goal of this first project phase is to reproduce both chairs with the objectives: Check if the open-source platform is clear and it is feasible to manufacture the wheelchairs in a different environment to where they have been designed and check the stability, comfort, and maneuverability.
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The authors wish to thank the students of the Dolphin Summer Research Program and the Mexican Academy of Sciences, AC, who cooperated to carry out this project: Luisa Fernanda Ramos Andrade, Flor Angelica Armenta Meza, Oscar Vazquez Torres, Manuel Hernandez Flores and Mariana Yazmin Kado Murillo. A especial acknowledge to the Universidad Panamericana, Campus Guadalajara for the financial aid received through the Research Found Program 2017.
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Rossa-Sierra, A., Landa-Ávila, I.C., Jiménez-López, O. (2019). Design of a Low-Cost Wheelchair for Open-Source Platform: First Phase. In: Di Bucchianico, G. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 776. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94622-1_26
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