DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF HANDICAPPED STEERING TRICYCLE

Gaurav Singh Parihar, Sanjay Singh Azad

Abstract: Conventional tricycles for handicapped require a lot of human effort to operate. They generally come with separate arrangements for providing motion and giving direction to the vehicle. These separate arrangements cause asymmetric use of hands and this results in discomfort of the rider. To alleviate this discomfort, a new arrangement which is mechanically more efficient than the conventional handicapped tricycle has been introduced, contains a single unit for providing motion and giving direction to the tricycle. Push and Pull motion of the steering results in forward and backward motion of the chair, while rotational motion of the same gives direction to the chair. In this paper, structural analysis is performed on the handicapped steering tricycle. Modelling is done on Solidworks 14 and ANSYS Workbench 15 is used to perform structural analysis.

Keywords: Lever-propelled wheelchair, Handicapped Steering Tricycle, Structural Analysis, and Design optimization

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2018.0701002