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Test cycles for the characterization of electrical drives devoted to wheelchair applications

Angelo RacitiV. Di DioA. O. Di TommasoC. CavallaroRosario Miceli

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Engineeringbusiness.industryDisabled peopleWheelchairSettore ING-IND/32 - Convertitori Macchine E Azionamenti ElettriciAutomotive engineeringField (computer science)Electrical drivesTest (assessment)Characterization (materials science)WheelchairbusinessTest cyclesSimulation

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Today electrical wheelchairs are giving valuable increase of the quality of life of disabled people in developed countries. Despite the increasing diffusion of such an aid tool, specific standards for the characterization of their electric drives are not so developed as those available for urban electric vehicles. This paper presents a proposal for the test characterization of a wheelchair drive by means of test cycles with fixed speed trajectories. To this aim, the method, which is well known in the field of automobiles, has been purposely adapted and the obtained simulation results are satisfactory.

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2003-06-25Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Caracas Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (Cat. No.02TH8611)
https://doi.org/10.1109/iccdcs.2002.1004102