Elevator (Adjustable Height) Wheel Chair

ME450 Capstone Design and Manufacturing Experience: Fall 2007Wheelchair users who work in plant environments are constantly struggling to establish their independence and increase their capabilities. To provide them with further support, a manual-elevating wheelchair, currently unavailable, was explored through research, design, and prototype modeling. The goal of this project was 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.NSF Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systemshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/57933/1/me450f07project3_report.pd