Physiological estimation of body balance for Affinitive Personal Vehicle

Recently, personal vehicles have received a lot of attention to expand our mobility for low carbon society and diversification of individual mobility. So far several small vehicles have been developed. However a new thesis of designing and controlling personal vehicles is required, because there are some difference between general vehicle-used environment and personal vehicle-used environment like mixed traffic. In such new kinds of environment, vehicles should have close relationship with drivers. To have closer relationship, personal vehicles must be smaller and lighter. In addition, designing personal vehicle´s motion by considering driver´s psychological evaluation, we can provide more comfortable vehicle´s interface. The author defined these kinds of personal vehicle as Affinitive Personal Vehicle and focused on driver´s sense of balance to estimate driver´s psychological evaluation. In this paper, author shows that change of vehicle´s motion effects on driver´s sense of balance, and there is relation between driver´s sense of balance and Kaisei evaluation.