TY - GEN
T1 - A study on self-balancing electric motorcycles with two-wheel steering
AU - Yang, Chuan
AU - Murakami, Toshiyuki
PY - 2014/3/26
Y1 - 2014/3/26
N2 - Due to their good portability and flexibility, two-wheel electric motorcycles are popular in many countries nowadays. However, keeping the motorcycles balanced, which is a valuable research in an accelerating ageing society, has not been thoroughly researched. In this essay, a novel self-balancing electric motorcycle is put forward to cover this deficiency. By controlling the two-wheel steering, in this paper, the balance of the electric motorcycle can be kept with its wheels swaying. Also, three different kinds of structures of the two-wheel steering motorcycles were discussed. And a master operator is added for the drivers, even the aged drivers to drive the motorcycle at ease. Such balance can be kept when the motorcycle is parked as well. The feasibility was proved by preliminary experiments.
AB - Due to their good portability and flexibility, two-wheel electric motorcycles are popular in many countries nowadays. However, keeping the motorcycles balanced, which is a valuable research in an accelerating ageing society, has not been thoroughly researched. In this essay, a novel self-balancing electric motorcycle is put forward to cover this deficiency. By controlling the two-wheel steering, in this paper, the balance of the electric motorcycle can be kept with its wheels swaying. Also, three different kinds of structures of the two-wheel steering motorcycles were discussed. And a master operator is added for the drivers, even the aged drivers to drive the motorcycle at ease. Such balance can be kept when the motorcycle is parked as well. The feasibility was proved by preliminary experiments.
KW - master operator
KW - self-balancing
KW - two-wheel driving
KW - two-wheel steering
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIAFS.2014.7069530
DO - 10.1109/ICIAFS.2014.7069530
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946690847
T3 - 2014 7th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability: "Sharpening the Future with Sustainable Technology", ICIAfS 2014
BT - 2014 7th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 7th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, ICIAfS 2014
Y2 - 22 December 2014 through 24 December 2014
ER -
