Suggestion of one-hand type power-assisted wheelchair and driving control for persons with hemiplegia.

Elderly people and disabled people use the wheelchair as a transportation device. However, the manual wheelchair has a large physical burden in order to use own power, and the activity on the outdoors is difficult. Moreover, the electric wheelchair causes the fall of muscular power by operation with joy stick. We suggest the one-hand type power-assisted wheelchair for persons with hemiplegia. This paper describes the driving control of straight and revolution by one-hand. The simulation was performed about straight and revolution. The result showed the validity of driving control.