• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1135-1144
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• 2018

An electric wheelchair used to be utilized as a piece of equipment for the disabled and the elderly in the past, but the recent changes to its functions and forms have made it available across various fields and purposes. In this paper, we propose a continuous track type of electric wheelchair prototype to be used in various fields and environments and a monitoring system to control it. A frame stress design was applied to improve its stability during driving compared with the previous wheelchairs. In addition, we provide a convenience for free and easy operation of them using the App. based on android. A monitoring system based on C# was also added to control a large number of electric wheelchairs. As a result of the implementation and performance evaluation, the von Mises stress value was measured 4.401% within the normal range through five times of stress interpretations, and its accuracy of communication for system manipulation was recorded about 98.75%, which means that it has been proven to be safer than the previous wheelchairs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.813-815
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• 2001

Permanent magnet DC motor is widely used in electrical tools, automotive manufacturing systems, electric vehicles, OA system drives, aircrafts and home appliances PM motors are suited for such an application, since they can be designed for high torque-to-speed ratio and efficiency. This paper deals with permanent magnet DC motor which is used in an electrical wheelchair. The motor has 6 PMs and 25 slots, and is coupled to the wheel with gears. In this study, motor design was carried out using finite element method. This paper discusses the design and construction of the prototype system and reports experimental results achieved from laboratory tests.

• Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.79-87
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide logical basis on enlargement of toilet floor space for the disabled by "ACT ON GUARANTEE OF PROMOTION OF CONVENIENCE OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, THE AGED, PREGNANT WOMEN. ETC" Revised Enforcement regulation [Asterisk 1] (2018.2.10.) and to help with making plans, designs and establishing policies by conducting experimental study with the enhanced floor area regulations. Methods: We conduct Experimental study, field work and interview for this paper. In experimental study, verification of the effective floor area was proceeded by measuring activity space for people in manual wheelchair, electric wheel chair and electric scooter and also reviewed useable area with the space expanded 0.2m both width and depth. In filed work, conducted an observation what other things (ex. sanitary equipment, hand rail and so on) can also affect the active space as well as effective floor space. In the interview, other problems and requirements that were not revealed were experimental study and observation of field work. Results : it's expected to provide better access to toilets for the disabled with the law revision of effective floor area. But, with the usage increasement of enlarged wheel chair and electric wheel chair, expanding side areas of toilet is also highly likely to be required going forward. Implications : Additional research is required on locations of exists and internal arrangement that effect the usage of toilet. It should be led to Universal design by making additional investigation and verification of the users patterns.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1585-1592
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• 2018

Due to un-balancing weight allocation on the wheelchair the existing wheelchair system are faced with the risk of flipping or falling when a wheelchair goes up to a hill. In to order to be safer during riding the wheelchair, in this paper, we proposed a real-time new solution using the integrated Gyro Sensor and Tilt Sensor for controlling the balance. Because the typical property of wheelchair is for the special user who meets the difficulty in moving on foot the maintain the balance of wheel-chair systems have become important and helpful. In our method, we calculate the seat angle using information from Tilt Sensor. However, due to the law of inertia when a wheelchair is moving there is a deviation in the output value of Tilt Sensor. Therefore, we have to optimize the value of the angle by utilizing the acceleration that is the output of the Gyro Sensor. We took the advantages by using the combination of Gyro and Tilt sensors. Moreover, we also solved the consumption issue of the whole system. Through various experimentations with usage of ZigBee sensor module, the power consumption for the balancing system is reduced significantly.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.9
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• pp.1110-1118
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• 2011

The recent power add-on drive wheelchairs (PADWs) provide greater physical activity and easier transportability and may be an excellent alternative for the typical manual and powered wheelchairs. The driving system consists of a motor and a motor driver is the most important component of the PADW In this paper, design, implementation, and testing of a driving system for a PADW are presented. To design the output power and torque for the driving system, the equation of motion has been investigated. The motor and driver were fabricated with precise machining and assembled to implement our prototype driving system. The dynamometer test has been carried out using the prototype in order to examine the torque of the system. The experimental results demonstrates that the designed driving system can provide enough output power and efficiency for utilization in a PADW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.115-118
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• 2009

고령화 사회를 맞이하여 다양한 실버제품들이 이들을 위해 출시되고 있으나, 이들이 느끼는 실버 제품의 거부감에 대한 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 이를 위해 사전에 연구된 실버 제품의 거부감에 대한 연구를 바탕으로 그 가설을 검증하도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.983-984
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• 2010

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.3360-3365
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• 2011

This paper deals with method to measure the user's driving-will force and to control the power-assisted wheelchair. To solve this problem, we extract the user's driving-will by using the mathematical motor model. And then, we get the linear and angular velocity at the center of the vehicle. Wheel velocities are also measured from center velocity. Finally, power-assisted electric wheelchairs are controlled by these data. Here all processes are verified by simulation.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1989 no.05
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• pp.77-80
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• 1989

This paper describes a study on the locomotion control system for a indoor-use mobile wheelchair. Three lode of operations - BASIC, AUTOMATIC and PROGRAMMED - are employed as basic algorithm building block. One-chip microcomputer 8031 is dominating the control of actuation part and it can control the range of rotating speed of the wheel both right and left by servo motor. Keyboard is employed as a command input device. This system is intended to improve the daily life of the disabled by the intelligent interactive operation scheme.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.317-326
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• 2010

The preparations for aging society are in progress at various fields while the related businesses are also actively in progress at each part of the society. At the same time, many countries that have entered aging society at an early stage are also solving various problems of the aging society by performing a continuous research on elderly industry. While disapproval could be generally called an emotional attitude formed over a long period of time from experience, how this disapproval is shown in elderly group and general public group has been investigated. Through the research, we could see that disapproval is shown as formative disapproval and semantic disapproval while it could be seen that a more sensitive reaction is shown toward semantic disapproval than formative disapproval in the silver group and people reacted to both semantic disapproval and formative disapproval in the general public group. Using these results, a hypothesis was set up and as a step to verify this hypothesis, an electric wheelchair for elderly to perform verification of the hypothesis. Through this study, we have attempted to present a design development methodology to reduce a sense of disapproval toward elderly group of people and prepare for the aging society to come in the future by setting the design objectives.