Investigation of Personal Mobility Vehicle stability and maneuverability under various road scenarios

Author

Masood, Jawad ; Zoppi, Matteo ; Molfino, Rezia

Author_Institution

Fac. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

7-12 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

4859

Lastpage

4864

Abstract

This paper investigates Stability and maneuverability of Personal Mobility Vehicle (PMV). The purpose of PMV is to provide mobility in city centers. Suspension design concept of PMV is based on accommodating different road scenarios. Non conventional suspension mechanism is adopted to conform stability and handling. Analyses are performed on simple full scale vehicle model to validate the stability of the vehicle. Road scenarios are realized by modeling different terrain profiles. Multi-body analysis techniques are used to obtain the suspension parameters. The vehicle is analyzed on different roads to observe the effect of inertia on system dynamics. The results present the angular velocity, angular acceleration, roll, yaw and pitch variations about center of gravity of the vehicle.

Keywords

design engineering; road vehicles; suspensions (mechanical components); vehicle dynamics; angular acceleration; angular velocity; full scale vehicle model; multibody analysis; personal mobility vehicle maneuverability; personal mobility vehicle stability; pitch variation; road scenario; roll; suspension design; suspension parameter; system dynamics; terrain profile; yaw; Acceleration; Angular velocity; Joints; Roads; Suspensions; Vehicle dynamics; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Vilamoura

ISSN

2153-0858

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1737-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2012.6386136

Filename

6386136