Design and Fabrication of a Motorized Prototype Tricycle for the Disable Persons

Abstract

This project design is embodied on a motorized tricycle for disabled Persons. The tricycle was specifically designed to suit wheelchair occupants of healthy Upper torso with pelvic to foot restraint. It is also designed to suit a commonly available Wheel chair. The level of relationship between the disabled people in the society has highly being jeopardized; therefore this project was designed to correct the difficulties in mobility of the wheelchair users. The main aim of the project design is to ease mobility for the physically challenged and also provide adequate comfort they desire. Existing tricycles for the disables requires the disabled person to dismount from the wheelchair onto the tricycle. The motorized tricycle in this project is designed to overcome this problem by allowing the disabled person to wheel up or down his wheelchair onto or down the tricycle. This is achieved using a specially designed platform that allows the wheel chair to be wheeled up or down. The prototype of this tricycle has been fabricated. The anthropometrics data that need to be considered in the design of the platform and frame of the tricycle have been taken into consideration at the design stage of the tricycle.