Design and fabrication of an Assistive system to translocate patients from bed to wheelchairs

摘要

Almost 4% of every 2.5 million elder people are bedridden. In that it is stated as 54 % of manual labors were need for taking care of bedridden patients through out the world. The exciting systems available for shifting bedridden patients is not sufficient and effective. Without manual helpers there is no existing system available for shifting bedridden patients. This design focuses on the action performed by the assistive system which will helps the patient to lift their body weights from their sitting position through a simple mechanism like a operating through switches. This procedure is achieved by the usage of the pneumatic cylinders which is controlled by the air flows from the air compressor through the solenoid valves. The pneumatic cylinders can be operated in both ways to pull the patients in forward direction from bed to the robotic system and pull the patients in backward direction to reach the confinement of the wheel chair.