MAHARASHTRA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AURANGABAD

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

“DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF WEARABLE CHAIR”
NAME OF THE STUDENTS: KAKAS GAURAV SUNIL (B.TECH.-B-49)
JADHAV DINESH VIJAY (B.TECH.-B-50)
GADEKAR DEVANAND BHAGWANRAO (B.TECH.-B-51)
NAME OF THE GUIDE: P.S. KULKARNI

Abstract Set-up of working model Applications

Chairless chair is a portable contraption that looks nothing like a chair and allows 1. This portable chair would helpful to workers and anyone who needs to stand for long hours at
you to sit on it whenever you want and wherever you want. This flexible, stretch.
ergonomic device looks more like an exoskeleton and extends from the hip to the
backs of the feet and adapts to different body sizes and safety shoes. Its intended 2. Once into mass production, a company can completely alternate the usage of portable chairs
use is for employees at manufacturing firms who have to stand for long periods of to CCES and maximize efficiency.
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3. In food and manufacturing industries, for labours who work standing hours and hours.
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temperature 4. Can be used by commuters standing in a crowded trains or metro to relax themselves without
occupying much space.

Working Principle
Introduction
The Chairless Chair uses a portable variable damper to hold the bodyweight of the user to
Ergonomics is a branch of science that aims to learn about human abilities and reduce the stress on leg muscles and joints. The bodyweight is directed to the shoe heels, which
limitations, and then apply this learning to improve people’s interaction with are attached to the Chairless Chair so it does not touch the ground directly.
products, systems and environments. Ergonomics aims to improve workspaces
and environments to minimize risk of injury or harm. So as technologies change,
so too does the need to ensure that the tools we access for work, rest and play are
designed for our body’s requirements. Exoskeletons have been constructed to
assist human locomotion and provide medical rehabilitation.

Objective
• Flexibility: Individual sitting height adjustment.
• Work support: Sitting support for standing work places.
• Freedom of movement: Fast switch between sitting, standing and Figure: - Wearable Chair
walking.

• Individualization: Adapts to different body sizes and safety shoes

Problem Statement Conclusion

Advantages
 This portable chair would helpful to workers and anyone who needs to stand for long
hours at stretch.
 Once into mass production, a company can completely alternate the usage of portable
chairs to CCES and maximize efficiency.
 In food and manufacturing industries, for labours who work standing hours and hours.
 Can be used by commuters standing in a crowded trains or metro to relax themselves
Past research and experiences had indicated that Slip disk problem
and leg pain occurs in worker, farmer, old person, due to standing
position. This may increase the development fatigue as well as it
reduces the productivity. This may lead to decrease the efficiency of
the person.
The chairless chair is successfully developed and assembled. The aim for this project to fabricate
a simple model to show how the system works is successfully achieved. In this project, a lower
extremity exoskeleton mechanism is designed to support human walking, sitting, and standing
motions synchronously with human and also it is developed to take significant portion of external
load carrying by the user.