Investigations on the Stability of a Two-Wheeled Vehicle with a Tendency to Topple Sideways

Abstract

Two-wheeled vehicles are the most commonly used means of transportation. Every day many unspoken tragedies are happening on the roads that kill the hope of many families. The primary cause of this is the inherent instability of the two-wheeled vehicle. In this paper, the precession effect of the gyroscope is used to prevent the sideway toppling of the bicycle. When the bicycle begins to tilt, the torque created by the gyroscope’s precession effect is applied to the gimbal, and the ensuing reaction moment keeps the bicycle upright. The movements of a bicycle with a gimbal placed on the bottom are measured, and a three-dimensional model with a sliding mode controller is created and simulated.