All-Terrain Wheelchair: Increasing Personal Mobility with a Powered Wheel-Track Hybrid Wheelchair

State-of-the-art technologies empower people with motor disabilities to carry out activities of daily living, thus enabling a better quality of life. Personal mobility is crucial for the well-being of individuals with motor impairments. In fact, studies have shown that, among people with motor disabilities, those having better mobility report greater satisfaction with their quality of life than those having lower mobility [1]-[3]. Motor functions can be improved, recovered, or partially substituted with various robot-based technologies, such as robotic prostheses, exoskeletons, and electric wheelchairs. Robotic wheelchairs allow those with motor disabilities practical and efficient electric mobility.