Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Goes to Ss01 Wheelchair Simulation System by RDS Co., Ltd.
RDS Co., Ltd. of Rds recognized for robotics, automaton and automation design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ Ss01 Wheelchair Simulation System by RDS Co., Ltd. of Rds has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More About Ss01 Wheelchair Simulation System
SS01 is a measurement system created to improve seating, especially for people who use a wheelchair. The system works as a robot with fifteen actuators that move parts of the seat and adjust the rotation torque of the wheels within seconds. Several sensors record the seating position, the center of gravity, and the speed and torque of each wheel with accuracy. Many seating positions can be tested rapidly, so quantitative data and physical impressions are gathered at the same time. SS01 measures 2526 mm in width, 3950 mm in depth and 1250 mm in height.
About RDS Co., Ltd.
CEO and the design director of RDS Co., Ltd. and the founder and the head editor of HERO X, Japanese web magazine about culture, para-sports, technology, and some.
About Rds
Product design and manufacturing company. Our main bussiness is CFRP product manufacturing for motor sport.
Award Record
This recognition makes RDS Co., Ltd. of Rds a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design Award
The A' Robotics Design Award is an international robotics design competition recognizing good robotics designs by robotics designers and engineers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to robotics designers, automation engineers, robotics brands and robot manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include industrial robots, medical robots, agricultural robots, domestic robots, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Awarded robotics designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/robotics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/101176
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/101176
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!101176
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/267084
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://bit.ly/2xBDFUv
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ss01 Wheelchair Simulation System
- Function
- Wheelchair Simulation System
- Category
- Robotics, Automaton and Automation Design
- Discipline
- Service Design
- Industry
- Manufacturing and Innovation
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Silver, Gainsboro and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- RDS Co., Ltd.
- Country
- Japan
- Brand
- Rds
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #101176
Credits
- Team
- Tomoya Ito, fuRo, exiii design Inc., MAGNET Inc., makesense Inc. and quod LLC
- Image Credits
- RDS Co., Ltd.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- SS01 is a mesurement system designed and developed to improve sitting especially for person who use wheelchair.
- 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.
- 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.
- Challenge
- It is challenging to formulate specifications for many applications and to design structures to achieve them, so we have repeated prototypes and improvements.
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- 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.
- Specifications
- Width 2526 mm x Depth 3950 mm x Height 1250 mm
- Keywords
- Wheelchair, Paralympic, Sports, Robot, Seating
