Volume 8, Issue 4, October 2014, Pages 1594–1603
Mrs. Neha D. Garade1, Prof. Mrs. Trupti Wagh2, and Dr. Mrs. P. Malathi3
1 D .Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India
2 D .Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India
3 D .Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India
Original language: English
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Physically weak, senior and disabled citizens use manual wheelchairs to move around places. The electrical wheelchairs provide them this required support for movement. It is difficult to control manual wheelchairs on sloping roads and hence the use of electrical power assisted wheelchair is advantageous, which can be controlled by braking. This paper proposes a new braking control algorithm to control these wheelchairs on downhill road and during its process, it is able to regenerate some power which can be stored in a charge storing device like a battery or super capacitor.
Author Keywords: power assisted wheelchairs, braking control algorithm, regeneration of power.
Mrs. Neha D. Garade1, Prof. Mrs. Trupti Wagh2, and Dr. Mrs. P. Malathi3
1 D .Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India
2 D .Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India
3 D .Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Physically weak, senior and disabled citizens use manual wheelchairs to move around places. The electrical wheelchairs provide them this required support for movement. It is difficult to control manual wheelchairs on sloping roads and hence the use of electrical power assisted wheelchair is advantageous, which can be controlled by braking. This paper proposes a new braking control algorithm to control these wheelchairs on downhill road and during its process, it is able to regenerate some power which can be stored in a charge storing device like a battery or super capacitor.
Author Keywords: power assisted wheelchairs, braking control algorithm, regeneration of power.
How to Cite this Article
Mrs. Neha D. Garade, Prof. Mrs. Trupti Wagh, and Dr. Mrs. P. Malathi, “Control Strategy for Safe Descent of Power Assisted Wheelchair on Declining Road Using Regenerative Braking,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 1594–1603, October 2014.
