Despite these challenges, wheelchair design has seen little change for decades. Versive offers a smarter solution: a control system that responds to upper body movements. Through this ...

At larger steering wheel angles above roughly 270 degrees from center, the rear wheels steered as much as 5.3 degrees out-of-phase with the fronts, tightening the turning circle about 10 percent.

Wheelchair racing pioneer marks 50 years since first Boston finish. Fifty years ago this month, ... THE STEERING MECHANISM, THE MAKESHIFT STEERING SO YOU DON’T GRAB IT AND TURN IT.

No Steering Wheel, Pedals or Driver's Seat: ... Zoox's robotaxis can't currently accommodate a wheelchair, but the company says it hopes that capability comes in the near future.

Steering a wheelchair can be a strenuous, inefficient process, in that you have to brake with one rear wheel while pushing harder on the other. A clever new chair addresses that problem in a ...

It is for this reason that the prototype has a lever at the side that switches steering via the backrest on and off. The wheelchair can then be steered in the familiar way via the large drive wheels.

So we don't have to constantly have our hands on the steering 'cause that would make a very slow race. WESTERVELT: Right. You'll take part in the New York Marathon, as we mentioned, November 3.

At first glance, steering wheel locks appear to be a surefire way of keeping your wheel safe from being tampered with. And while far from an ineffective deterrent, it's important to note that your ...

Leeds-based mobility specialists, Independence Mobility, have agreed a deal with Belgian technology company, CoMoveIT, to become the UK distributor of the CoMoveIT Smart wheelchair steering system.

Motion planning for mobile robot platforms is one of the long-established research fields in robotics. In this paper, we propose a trajectory planner for mobile holonomic robots to steer non-holonomic ...