Mechatronic System for Drying Human Body After Bath

Abstract

-From several tasks needed for taking care of disabled and/or bedridden people, bath is one of them. After bath, of those persons, one of most important tasks is related with during the human body, mainly in users with reduced mobility. Those users need some specific assisting devices that can help them performing drying their own body after bath. Existing devices, for those purposes are not satisfying those people for several reasons that are explained on this paper. The main added value of this paper is the proposition of a mechatronic device for performing those tasks, related with human body drying, and covering some gaps detected when other similar systems have been analysed. An equipment, for being attractive in this domain, must combine three main requirements: comfort, efficiency and safety. Those three characteristics were always taken in consideration during the design of the proposed solution. That solution is presented in this paper as a future and it is expected that can to solve the majority of the identified problems in the mentioned context. A conceptual model of the proposed solution is presented.