TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a Leaping Mechanism for Electric Skateboards
AU - Aoki, Toshiki
AU - Nagai, Isaku
AU - Watanabe, Keigo
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - With the spread of automobiles, problems of air pollution and global warming are becoming serious. To avoid these problems, locomotion by personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) attracts attention. Among the PMVs, electric skateboards have high portability as well as a feature that it can travel long distances with low environmental load by cooperation with public transportation. However, the wheel diameter of the conventional electric skateboards is small, so that it is difficult to get over steps. Therefore, a special electric skateboard is proposed in this study. It has a leaping mechanism consisted of permanent magnets, an electromagnet, and compression springs on the bottom surface of the deck so that the skateboard leaps using the elastic energy of the springs. During normal moving, the compressed state of the springs is maintained by the both types of magnets. When the electricity to the electromagnet is turned off, the elastic energy of the springs is released and the skateboard leaps. In this paper, the design of the leaping mechanism and the experimental result evaluating the leaping performance are described.
AB - With the spread of automobiles, problems of air pollution and global warming are becoming serious. To avoid these problems, locomotion by personal mobility vehicles (PMVs) attracts attention. Among the PMVs, electric skateboards have high portability as well as a feature that it can travel long distances with low environmental load by cooperation with public transportation. However, the wheel diameter of the conventional electric skateboards is small, so that it is difficult to get over steps. Therefore, a special electric skateboard is proposed in this study. It has a leaping mechanism consisted of permanent magnets, an electromagnet, and compression springs on the bottom surface of the deck so that the skateboard leaps using the elastic energy of the springs. During normal moving, the compressed state of the springs is maintained by the both types of magnets. When the electricity to the electromagnet is turned off, the elastic energy of the springs is released and the skateboard leaps. In this paper, the design of the leaping mechanism and the experimental result evaluating the leaping performance are described.
KW - Electric skateboard
KW - Leap
KW - Personal mobility
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U2 - 10.1109/ICMA.2019.8816209
DO - 10.1109/ICMA.2019.8816209
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072389026
T3 - Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
SP - 850
EP - 855
BT - Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2019
Y2 - 4 August 2019 through 7 August 2019
ER -