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The group of Multidisciplinary Engineering and Safety UPCT also develops a simulator prosthesis and a recycle bin to save space
"With a pension of 600 euros or less, one can not afford a power wheelchair."
Under this premise, teachers of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Francisco Cavas, Dolores Parras, José Nieto, Francisco Jose Fernandez, Daniel Garcia and Antonio Molina, the group of Multidisciplinary Engineering and Safety, have tried to solve the problem with daily they found dozens of paraplegics.
This is the germ of the project to transform a conventional wheelchair into an electric.
"The electric wheelchairs are ten times more expensive than normal," says Francisco Cavas, which clarifies that an electric can cost more than 5,000 euros and not everyone can afford the.
This could not have designed a kind of adapter that is placed in the wheelchair and transforms it into the closest thing to an electric tricycle.
They say that this system would cost about 1,800 euros, making it more affordable.
The adapter is "easy to place."
Thus, the independence of the modular injured allowed has Champaigns.
In addition, it stresses that "if it comes to outside, get more autonomy than gives you a conventional wheelchair."
This device is fitted in the wheelchair with a crowbar and raises some centimeters from the ground the front wheels on the rear.
In the design process they have also involved three real users who have provided researchers UPCT their mobility problems.
Furthermore, it has made a study for anthropomorphic balance ergonomics and design.
A simulator for predicting the performance of the prosthesis
Does the patient will regain full mobility of the joint with the prosthesis?
Many surgeons ask this question before each operation.
These researchers from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), directed by Jose Nieto, have designed a simulator prosthetic arthroplasty, that is, a computer program that allows doctors to predict the behavior of the prosthesis for a joint before operating .
The work of the base of the need to know the mechanical behavior that will affect the prosthesis and how it fits into the joint of the person.
"Real geometry is used in the simulator and the ability to biointegracioón bone is also studied," says Cavas, which considers it a "very useful" device.
They devise a recycle bin for space - saving house
30% of waste that end up in the container is not placed in the right place.
This is because it or you do not read the labels of products does not identify the container with the product or does not have space in the home for recycling, according to the study of this group of researchers UPCT, which has collaborated intern department of Graphic Expression Ana Fernandez.
For the latter provide as a solution manufacturing modular recycling bins.
It is true that since they already exist in the market, but have warned that none of them are mobile or contains a pressing system for bottles or boxes that are thrown in the same do not occupy much space.
The research group has designed computer how would this paper, which rotates on its own axis and has storage drawers waste, along with a press that compresses the material to be recycled.
"You could locate in any wardrobe and as it turns on its own axis, it goes continuously out of the place where it is;
is convenient and saves space, "says Cavas.
They insist that this paper "useful" and that its main aim, besides saving space in housing is to increase the sensitivity in recycling and reduce that 30% of waste thrown in containers that are not theirs.
Source: UPCT
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