Improvements of one-wheel driven personal mobility for use on a public road

Takanori Sakata; Isaku Nagai; Keigo Watanabe

doi:10.1109/ICMA.2017.8015872

Improvements of one-wheel driven personal mobility for use on a public road

Takanori Sakata, Isaku Nagai, Keigo Watanabe

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Abstract

As a daily means of transportation, Personal Mobility (PM) attracts attention due to its high environmental performance. One of the representative PMs is Segway. However, it is expensive and unavailable to use freely on a Japanese public road because of Road Traffic Act. Therefore, our laboratory developed a one-wheel driven and standing ride type PM for the purpose of low production cost and using on the public roads freely. However, the PM has two problems; i.e., one is that its driving speed becomes uncontrollable by sunlight that changes DC offset of signals from a sensor for measuring speed, and the other is that the driver falls off by a sudden stop of the drive wheel due to battery exhaustion. In this paper, the speed control under the sun is made possible by introducing a signal conversion circuit with AC coupling. In addition, gentle decelerating and automatic stopping before the battery exhaustion prevent the driver from falling off.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	525-530
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509067572
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2017.8015872
Publication status	Published - Aug 23 2017
Event	14th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017 - Takamatsu, Japan Duration: Aug 6 2017 → Aug 9 2017

Other

Other	14th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017
Country	Japan
City	Takamatsu
Period	8/6/17 → 8/9/17

Keywords

One-wheel driven
Personal mobility
Road Traffic Act

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Optimization
Instrumentation
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

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Improvements of one-wheel driven personal mobility for use on a public road. / Sakata, Takanori; Nagai, Isaku ; Watanabe, Keigo.

2017 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 525-530 8015872.

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Sakata, T, Nagai, I & Watanabe, K 2017, Improvements of one-wheel driven personal mobility for use on a public road. in 2017 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017., 8015872, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 525-530, 14th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2017, Takamatsu, Japan, 8/6/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMA.2017.8015872

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