Sooraj Surendran

Sooraj Surendran is an Indian technologist and an electronic engineering graduate from Anna University.[2] He made significant contributions to the development of the motorized wheelchair.[3]

Sooraj Surendran
Born (1990-06-05) 5 June 1990
Kollam, Kerala, India
Alma materB.E., Anna University
OccupationEngineer[1]

Early life and education

Sooraj was born in Kollam, Kerala, India.[2] His mother Sudha was a housewife and his father, K Surendran Pillai.[4] Sooraj Completed Schooling in Sree Buddha, a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Karunagappalli, Kerala. He earned his degree from Anna University in electronic engineering.[5]

Career

After graduating from Anna University with a BTech in electronic engineering 2011, He started working in motorized wheelchair design and nursing care bed electronic unit design. He published a paper for intelligent reverse sensor in motorized wheelchair[6][7] and developed an electronic system for nursing care bed with the help of advanced Bluetooth technology. Here all functions of nursing care bed can be controlled through an Android application.[8] Sooraj was invited for the development of light weight motorized wheelchair electronic control unit as a part of Tamil Nadu motorized wheelchair distribution for 2000 people.[9][8]

Projects

Electronic Control Unit for Wheelchair Seat Lifting Mechanism

Sooraj contributions to the motorized wheelchair industry is more. Sooraj classified motorized wheelchair on the basis of DC motor wattage and the control unit used. Every time, he made research for making a user friendly motorized wheelchair. He interacted with the motorized wheelchair users for more than three years.[4] and identified their problem for customizing the motorized wheelchair. Interactions made him for electronic control unit developments. He developed an electronic control unit for motorized wheelchair seat lifting mechanism.[5] Seat Lifting is controlled by an actuator. He given the dual controlling facility,[5] controls in arm-side joystick and an additional optional for Bluetooth Low Energy Connectivity. Android mobile phone can be paired with Bluetooth and user attender can also access the system from limited range. For development and user safety, he implemented the use of intelligent reverse sensor technology in motorized wheelchair.[6] By this motorized wheelchair will automatically detect the obstacles behind and notify the user with alarm or beep sound.

Low Cost Electronic Control Unit for Wheelchair

Through his research, he developed a low cost smart motorized wheelchair electronic control unit.[3] Developed low cost smart electronic control unit is having the auto cutoff facility for high temperature and auto wake up, when the system get cooled. With the inbuilt battery management system, rechargeable battery is charged through the calculated current and thus safeguard the batteries of the Motorized wheelchair. Dual interface option is available; one is smartphone connected system[10] and second is by joystick.

Electronic control unit of nursing care bed

Sooraj developed a smart Bluetooth technology controlled nursing care bed.[1] nursing care bed functions can be controlled by an Android application.

References
  1. "ഇലക്ട്രിക് വീൽചെയർ ഇനി ആഡംബരമല്ല". Manorama Online. 17 June 2020.
  2. "കുറഞ്ഞ ചിലവിൽ സ്മാർട്ട് ഇലക്ട്രിക് വീൽ ചെയറിനുള്ള കൺട്രോൾ സിസ്റ്റം വികസിപ്പിച്ച് മലയാളി യുവാവ്". Twentyfour News. 12 June 2020.
  3. "ഇലക്ട്രിക് വീൽചെയർ കുറഞ്ജ ചിലവിൽ". Deshabhimani. 14 June 2020.
  4. "കുറഞ്ഞ ചെലവിലുള്ള സ്മാർട്ട് വീൽ കസേരയുമായി സൂരജ്". Mathrubhumi. 16 June 2020.
  5. "cheap electronic wheelchair developed young engineer". Madhyamam. 17 June 2020.
  6. Surendran, Sooraj; G, Nanaguru (21 December 2017). "Intelligent Reverse Sensor for Electric Wheelchair". Semantic Scholar. 5 (6): 51–53. doi:10.26438/ijsrcse/v5i6.5153. S2CID 55102150.
  7. "Intelligent Reverse Sensor for Electric Wheelchair". Google Scholar. 31 December 2017.
  8. "Smart System for Electric Wheelchair- Wheels rolling with smart idea". Prime Time. 4 June 2020.
  9. "2,000 disabled people to receive motorised wheelchairs in Tamilnadu". The Times of India. 14 February 2020.
  10. "കുറഞ്ഞ ചിലവിൽ സ്മാർട്ട് ഇലക്ട്രിക് വീൽചെയറുകൾ വികസിപ്പിച്ചെടുത്ത് കൊല്ലം സ്വദേശി സൂരജ്". newstwentytwenty. 10 June 2020.
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