Development of autonomous bike robot with balancer

Recently it is expected to develop robots which can work in dissastered area or places where human can not approach. In dissasterd area, it is considered that a bike type robot which has narrower body and has high manuvability is more efficient than vehicles with four wheels. In the literatures, bike type robots with stabilizing mechanism with wheel or steerling control have been proposed. In this paper we discuss a development of bike type robot with a balancer and show experimental result in an open field.