4WD Permoveh wheelchair turns on a dime (Albuquerque Journal)
Reinventing the wheel: Masaharu Komori demos the Permoveh, a wheelchair with
omnidirectional wheels.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET)
Japanese researchers led by Masaharu Komori, an associate professor of
mechanical engineering at Kyoto University, recently demoed the Permoveh, or
Personal Mobility Vehicle, as a prototype next-generation wheelchair.
The Permoveh has four wheels of the same size, and each wheel contains 32
rollers that can rotate in a perpendicular direction to the rim. As the vid
below shows, the vehicle can move in any direction when the user operates a
hand-held control.
When the user wants to travel forward or back, the wheels alone move; when
going sideways, the rollers move. When traveling diagonally, both wheels and
rollers move.
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