Adaptable House

In-Home Overhead Mobility: Winch Design and 3D Demo

Adaptable House Project needed a cost-effective, reliable winching capability for an overhead mobility system intended to support people with changing mobility needs while encouraging physical movement and independence. To address this need, the project focused on the design of a scaled prototype winching system that could attach to an existing tabletop XY gantry and demonstrate key operating concepts for a future full-scale system. The resulting prototype was intended to show how a winch-based approach could support multiple modes of operation within the overhead mobility platform, and included controls developed to demonstrate basic system behavior.