Research of the personal mobility vehicle of which wheels have non-identical axis

Abstract

In this work, we studied characteristic of the original vehicle, which wheels have non-identical axis. This vehicle is based on the parallel two-wheel vehicle and bicycle, which are usually called personal mobility vehicle (PMV). As short distance travel, it is said PMV has many advance point like environment-friendly, small occupation area, and so on. Because of these feature, PMV needs to be used with pedestrian, so PMV also need to be secure. Our work aims to make the feature of the original vehicle clear and research how to utilize the features of usual two PMV, and put smallness, operability, and stability into practice. From the simulation, we proved this vehicle can control both pitch and roll axis by configuring the wheelbase as proper value. This article was presented at the JSME TRANSLOG 2016 on December 2, 2016.