Here is the problem statement that four senior engineering students at Olivet Nazarene University (ONU) will work to solve over the next school year.
His Wheels has worked endlessly to improve its current trike model to be as user-friendly, cost-efficient, durable, and safe as possible. Though the hand-pedaled model serves a plethora of disabled people internationally, it still falls short in being able to mobilize quadriplegic or fully paralyzed clients. Due to a significant lack of funding, prior research regarding this topic has been primitive. Our group has thus been tasked with researching and developing a prototype and working model of an EEG technology which will power a visually evoked trike. The working trike should be able to mobilize fully paralyzed passengers based upon neurological, or electrochemical, cues.
Not only will this trike further the ministry of His Wheels International, it will develop an invaluable component to the neuroscience mechanical field. Successfully engineering a mind controlled trike would be a revolutionary breakthrough in human mobilization devices. So far, nothing similar to this technology has been successfully innovated, let alone has it incorporated a compatible design for a resource-limited region such as the third-world countries His Wheels distributes to.
Considering all the above constrains, one limitation we must keep in mind while designing this trike model is cost. The design for the EEG device which acts on visually-excited neurological cues and a power/energy source to mobilize the trike must therefore be carefully considered.