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Research on Products and Devices

Prototyping of manual wheelchair with alternative propulsion system

Paride CavalloneDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Elvio BonisoliDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Giuseppe QuagliaDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Pages 945-951 | Received 08 Jan 2019, Accepted 04 Jun 2019, Published online: 28 Jun 2019

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