CYBATHLON Challenge 2024 Wheelchair RaceにおけるTeam OECUの取り組み

―電動車いすRPWheel24-PT1の電装系設計―

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CYBATHLON is an international competition organized by ETH Zurich, Switzerland, that provides an opportunity to promote the development of new assistive technologies useful in daily life, challenging development teams from around the world to work with people with disabilities to develop assistive technologies. In this study, we are participating in the Powered Wheelchair Race (WHL), an electric wheelchair category, as Team OECU RPwheel Project. This paper reports on the electrical system design of RPWheel24-PT1, an electric wheelchair developed by Team OECU for CYBATHLON Challenge 2024. Our team’s device completed three tasks in this competition, and we confirmed the designed system was fully operational for this competition.