Ss01 車椅子シミュレーションシステム by RDS Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 A' Design Award 銅賞 in ロボティクス・オートマトン・オートメーションデザイン Competition Category.

銅ロボティクス· 2020

Ss01 車椅子シミュレーションシステム

by RDS Co., Ltd.

Client: RDS Co., Ltd.

A' Design Award 銅賞 Winner in ロボティクス Category

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The Design

About Ss01 車椅子シミュレーションシステム

SS01は、特に車椅子を使用する人々のシーティングを改善するために開発された計測システムです。本システムは15基のアクチュエータを備えたロボットとして機能し、シートの各部を動かし、車輪の回転トルクを数秒で調整します。複数のセンサーが、着座姿勢、重心、そして各車輪の速度とトルクを高い精度で記録します。多様な着座姿勢を短時間で試すことができるため、定量的なデータと身体的な体感を同時に収集できます。SS01の寸法は幅2526mm、奥行3950mm、高さ1250mmです。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 銅賞

Ss01 車椅子シミュレーションシステムは、創造性、独創性、鋭い洞察力で際立つ傑出したデザインに授与される、高い権威をもつ評価である A' Design Award 銅賞の受賞作品です。銅賞の受賞作品は、十分に巧みで印象的なほど創造的な工芸品であり、デザイナーの豊富な経験、想像力、機知を裏づけています。Ss01 車椅子シミュレーションシステムは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される品であり、顕著にプロフェッショナルで革新的であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 銅賞を受賞したデザインは、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術のベストプラクティスを取り入れており、細部への配慮に優れています。Ss01 車椅子シミュレーションシステムは、ニーズを見事に満たし、欲求に触れ、感情を魅了し、好奇心を引きつけます。

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.