A RIDER-LEAN STEERING MECHANISM FOR MOTORCYCLE CONTROL

This article relates experiments in which riders with a wide range of skill performed a variety of steering tasks on an instrumented motorcycle. Observation of the data suggested a strong coupling between the steering and lean inputs applied by riders, especially for less skilled ones. This observation led to a re-examination of a previous model proposed by D.H. Weir in a Ph.D Thesis, and to the development of an alternative model, which is described in this paper.

• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • "Motorcycle Handling Dynamics and Rider Control and the Effect of Design Configuration on Response and Performance". Ph.D Thesis, H.D. Weir, UCLA 1972.
• Corporate Authors:

  Swets & Zeitlinger

  Heereweg 347B
  2161 CA Lisse,   Netherlands 
• Authors:
  • PREM, H
  • Good, M
• Publication Date: 1983-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 29-32
• Serial:
  • Vehicle System Dynamics
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue Number: 1-3
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0042-3114
  • EISSN: 1744-5159
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nvsd20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Mathematical models; Motor skills; Motorcyclists; Steering; Torque
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00385552
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-035 827
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 30 1984 12:00AM