Essays about: "stair climbing"

Found 3 essays containing the words stair climbing.

1. 1. RoboVac - Ascender

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Industridesign

   Author : Melinda Andersson; [2022]
   Keywords : Technology and Engineering; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : For my bachelor thesis, I wanted to explore and develop a new kind of robot vacuum cleaner. A robot vacuum cleaner that can climb stairs. Not that there is a big need for it for us to function as human beings. But to make the already established robot vacuums go even further. READ MORE

3. 2. The effects of fatigue during deep metro evacuations and its implications on evacuation modelling tools

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Brandteknik

   Author : Alejandra Velasco; [2018]
   Keywords : stair-ascent evacuation; stair evacuation modelling; stairs; physiology; fire safety engineering; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : The thesis purpose is to determine how people’s evacuation performance is affected by carrying weight while performing a stair-climbing motion. The fire safety engineering and physiology fields are merged to increase the knowledge regarding ascending evacuation. READ MORE

4. 3. An Optimization Design for the Stair-Climbing Wheelchair

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap

   Author : Lin Zhang; Feihong Xi; [2012]
   Keywords : Stair-climbing Wheelchair; Autodesk Inventor Modelling; Optimization Design; Simulations;

   Abstract : With sharply increasing of elderly and disabled people at present, the work which focuses on making life easier for those people have been paid more attention. So a new stair-climbing wheelchair was designed in this paper which can work in three modes: stair-climbing mode, powered wheelchair mode and manual mode. READ MORE