Towards an assistive luggage for reducing human effort while travelling

Towards an assistive luggage for reducing human effort while travelling

Kiyawat, P.

Horváth, I. (mentor)
Kooijman, A. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Design Engineering

Master of Science Integrated Product Design

2016-04-21

People love travelling and most of them travel for fun and leisure. But carrying a suitcase through stairs is one of the biggest difficulties one can face while travelling. This project is in the direction of an assistive luggage technology that helps people reduce human effort to carry their suitcase while travelling. Stairo is a concept of a motorized staircase climbing suitcase that climbs up or down the staircase automatically when once kept in desired position on the staircase. It stops after reaching the top or bottom of staircase from where the traveler can roll it to continue on his/her journey. Stairo is designed to climb all straight stairs meeting US/ UK dimension standards for private stairs. It is useful not only at the airports or train stations but also in homes where there is, in general, no provision for elevators or escalators. Thus helping people specially elderly, women, children and people having trouble walking or climbing the stairs.

motorized staircase climbing suitcase
assistive luggage

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5b2d9788-3f8c-4662-8eaa-570d1f3b27f1

2017-04-21

Campus only

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 Kiyawat, P.