Content Aware Luggage: Enabling Virtual Access to Internal Contents

The travel industry has changed a lot since the 1800’s - from ox-wagons, to horse and buggies, to trains and eventually, to airplanes. However, even with the current technology available, suitcases today still mostly focus only on material and structure changes when it comes to improvement. This may improve ergonomics and reliability of the...

Towards an assistive luggage for reducing human effort while travelling

People love travelling and most of them travel for fun and leisure. But carrying a suitcase through stairs is one of the biggest difficulties one can face while travelling. This project is in the direction of an assistive luggage technology that helps people reduce human effort to carry their suitcase while travelling. Stairo is a concept of a...

Travelteq: Development of a mobile personal luggage solution

The development of a carry-on suitcase for the 2 to 3 day business and private journeys. This resulted in a truly innovative set-up of the well-known spinner suitcase. With the use of holonomic wheels the suitcase could be twisted into a narrow and highly maneuverable travel case. Self reinforced plastics made it light and still strong enough to...