Report Objective and Organization

A prototype for a manual wheelchair add-on that is intended to aid users in ascending and descending inclines has been developed. The purpose of this report is to describe how this project was developed, the current prototype and an assessment of the success of the project. This includes the following sections: design pathway and process, engineering specifications, current state of the project, further testing and design modifications, final budget, team self examination, and recommendations for future work. The design pathway and process describes the motivation, stakeholder engagement, project organization and puts the current effort into a technological and societal context. The following section is the engineering specifications which describes the specifications that were developed for the project in general as well as the specifications developed for the various subteams. The current state of the project describes the current prototype for the different subteams as well as the testing that has been completed for the prototype. Following the current prototype description, additional testing and modifications to the prototype is described. The overall budget of this project is also broken down in this report. Additionally a team evaluation was conducted for the entire team as well as for the subteams. With all the work that has been done for this project the team has developed and noted recommendations for future work of what would have improved the overall project, and what advice the team would give to future capstone projects. A lot of work has been done to create the wheelchair add-on device and this report reflects the project development, prototyping, and further improvements that have been made throughout the entire project timeline.