Efficient Body-Transfer Wheelchair for Assisting Functionally Impaired People

作     者：Chyi-Yeu Lin Bahrudin Salman Masroor 

作者机构：Department of Mechanical EngineeringNational Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyTaipei106TaiwanChina Center for Cyber-Physical SystemsNational Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyTaipei106TaiwanChina Taiwan Building Technology CenterNational Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyTaipei106TaiwanChina 

出 版 物：《Computers, Materials & Continua》 (计算机、材料和连续体（英文）)

年 卷 期：2023年第74卷第3期

页      面：4881-4900页

核心收录：

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 0804[工学-仪器科学与技术] 100215[医学-康复医学与理疗学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：This work is financially supported by both Taiwan,China ,Building Technology Center and Center for Cyber-physical System Innovation from the Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education(MOE)in Taiwan,China This research is also financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology,Republic of China,Under Grant 108-2221-E-011-140-MY2 

主　　题：Wheelchair functionally-impaired people toileting bathing bodytransfer 

摘      要：Functionally impaired people always have difficulty accomplishing activities of daily *** this regard,tasks including toileting and bathing have a higher prevalence rate of injuries and greater risk of *** this study,a body-transfer wheelchair was developed to assist people in transferring from bed to wheelchair for bathing,and *** bodytransfer wheelchair is a semi-automatic wheelchair that has features such as a controlled leg and backrest,linkage commode slot,and height *** wheelchair consists of a seat and a main frame that can be detached to enable bathtub *** mechanism lets the user stay on the seat while being transferred into the bathtub without any risk of falling.A linkage mechanism was developed as a part of the seat for ease of *** and force analysis was conducted to calculate the force required for each *** has been proved by the experimental results that the wheelchair can securely and comfortably transfer a patient from the bed to the toilet or bathtub.A survey has been conducted to evaluate the wheelchair prototype design *** focus groups were chosen:one comprised of functionally impaired people,and the other comprised of *** results of the survey show that 60%of both functionally impaired people and caregivers would like to use the body-transfer wheelchair for toileting and bathing ***,on average 65%of both focus groups find it convenient to operate the body-transfer wheelchair independently.