Acknowledgments

Any achievement, be it scholastic or otherwise does not depend solely on the individual efforts but on the guidance, encouragement and cooperation of people around.Many people in their own capacities have helped us in carrying out this project. We owe a debt of gratitude to each one of them.

First and foremost we would like to thank our guide Dr. P. Meena, Associate Professor, Department of EEE, BMSCE, Bangalore for the vision and foresight which inspired us to conceive the project. One simply could not wish for a better and friendlier supervisor. We would like to thank Dr.Ravishankar Deekshit, Professor and Head, Department of EEE, BMSCE, Bangalore for his constant support and motivation. We thank our vice Principal Dr. G N Shekhar for his support. We thank our esteemed Principal, Dr. Mallikharjuna Babu for encouraging all students to innovate, explore and think out of the box.

We thank Mr. Binu J, Director, Ostrich Mobility Pvt. Ltd. for giving us an opportunity to visit his production unit and understand the various aspects in design of commercial wheelchairs. We thank the Ministry of Human Resource Development for launching the “Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme of Government of India (TEQIP)” with assistance from the World Bank which aims to upscale and support ongoing efforts in improving quality of technical education for providing the financial aid to this multi-disciplinary project. We are thankful to the Department of Electrical and Electronics, BMS College of Engineering for the help given at every stage of our project. Special mention to our seniors, Chiranth S, Rajashekar C, Krishna Ramesh and Divya Ravi who gave us crucial insight to this project.

Last but not the least, we would like to thank our family and friends for their unending support.