Proposal for Personal Mobility Vehicle

Abstract

   In this paper, the authors propose the personal mobility vehicle (PMV), which is friendly for the human and the environment. The PMV consists of the bicycle mode that is used at high speed and parallel two-wheel mode that is used at low speed. The steer-by-wire and the drive-by-wire system are used in order to increase its stability. The parallel two-wheel mode is stabilized by the controller using the stabilization method of an inverted pendulum. In addition to the conventional step type vehicle that is fully operated by the electric power, the hybrid type that uses the human power for its running is investigated. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]