Project and realization of a two-wheels balancing vehicle

In this paper we present the project and realization of a two-wheel, easy-to-use, Segway - type mobile vehicle. Battery powered, two-wheeled vehicles are of great and growing interest all the time. Unfortunately, solutions found on the market are still very expensive. It was the motivation behind designing own solution of this type. Presented vehicle has been designed from ground up. It is controlled by the use of the AVR microcontroller, which has been embedded with other systems and electronic components on a PCB designed in the Eagle design environment. The vehicle is equipped with inertial-measurement sensors (IMU - Inertial Measurement Unit), consisting of the gyro and accelerometer, made in MEMS technology (Micro Electro-Mechanical System). The vehicle is easy to use. The user needs only a few minutes to learn how to operate it. One of the advantages is very low price.