Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant by RDS Co., Ltd.

Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant by RDS Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award de Bronze in Robotique Competition Category.

BronzeRobotique· 2020

Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant

by RDS Co., Ltd.

Client: RDS Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award de Bronze Winner in Robotique Category

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The Design

About Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant

SS01 est un système de mesure conçu pour améliorer l'assise, en particulier pour les personnes en fauteuil roulant. Le système fonctionne comme un robot doté de quinze actionneurs qui déplacent les différents éléments du siège et ajustent le couple de rotation des roues en quelques secondes. Plusieurs capteurs enregistrent avec précision la position d'assise, le centre de gravité ainsi que la vitesse et le couple de chaque roue. De nombreuses positions d'assise peuvent être testées rapidement, ce qui permet de recueillir simultanément des données quantitatives et des impressions physiques. Le SS01 mesure 2526 mm de largeur, 3950 mm de profondeur et 1250 mm de hauteur.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Bronze

Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant est lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze, une reconnaissance hautement prestigieuse décernée à des designs remarquables qui se distinguent par leur créativité, leur ingéniosité et leur sagacité. Les lauréats Bronze sont des artefacts amplement habiles et d'une créativité frappante, qui authentifient la vaste expérience, l'imagination et l'ingéniosité de leurs concepteurs. Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant est censé être un objet très estimé, admiré et chéri, remarquablement professionnel et innovant. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award de Bronze intègre les meilleures pratiques de l'art, de la science, du design et de la technologie, et est excellent par son souci du détail. Ss01 Système de simulation de fauteuil roulant satisfait admirablement les besoins, touche les désirs, charme les sentiments et attire la curiosité.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: SS01 is a mesurement system designed and developed to improve sitting especially for person who use wheelchair.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width 2526 mm x Depth 3950 mm x Height 1250 mm
Tags: Wheelchair, Paralympic, Sports, Robot, Seating
Production Technology: It works as a kind of robot which have 15 actuators moves part of seat and the torque of rotation of wheel in just a seconds and several sensors to logging seating position, point of center of gravity and speed, torque of each wheels with accuracy. With SS01, user can test many seating potision rapidly and get quantitative data and know how they fiscally feel that at the same time.
Design Challenge: It is challenging to formulate specifications for many applications and to design structures to achieve them, so we have repeated prototypes and improvements.
Research: The prototype was manufactured and tested repeatedly in order to improve the practicality of the product.
Experienced wheelchair athletes participated in the verification, and the specification requirements of the SS01 were extracted after repeated testing and recording for the purpose of setting the seat position of the wheelchair.
As a result, the SS01 was born as a highly versatile testing system, and is still being improved by testing wheelchair users on a daily basis.
It has been devised for applications where a large amount of data can be acquired with little effort and the structure can be diverted.
Inspiration: Through the development of wheelchairs and para-sport equipment, the design team have been exposed to the fact that individual seating can greatly affect a person's ability to do so.Since able-bodied people also spend a lot of time sitting, they felt the possibility that there would be many benefits if seating could be analyzed quickly and appropriately and reflected in people's lives.
Project Duration: The project started in August 2017 and the SS01 was made in August 2018. In 2020, SS01 is used for medical research and the development is going.
Operation Flow: This project had been started from the development of racing wheelchair for Paralympic since 2017. Through the development, we getting to understood the importance of putting the athlete in correct position in perfect fit with the seat.

The seating position affected to their record so obviously with our prototype. And the obvious data made an experienced athlete understandable for us. The communication about wheelchair development became much easier for each other.

then we joined to "furo", the specialist in robotics, and started to design this system for not only for the atletes but for anyone.
Team Members: RDS Co., Ltd.
Tomoya Ito
fuRo
exiii design Inc.
MAGNET Inc.
makesense Inc.
quod LLC
Image Credits: RDS Co., Ltd.