TWENTY FIRST CENTURY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM SOLUTIONS : A NEW TYPE OF SMALL, RELATIVELY TALL AND NARROW ACTIVE TILTING COMMUTER VEHICLE

This paper looks at the concept of small, relatively tall and narrow tilting commuter vehicles for individual transportation. A historical overview of the various types of tilting vehicles built or proposed over the last forty years is shown and the results of these studies are discussed. The design of a modern active tilting suspension and control law for small narrow, one-half width, commuter vehicles is presented. Analysis of the static and dynamic tipping limits illustrates which vehicles are considered tall and narrow requiring active tilting. The performance of such vehicles as they enter a steady corner is considered and how tilt dynamics may feel to passengers is discussed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: May 1996
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Leeds

  School of Mechanical Engineering
  Leeds, West Yorkshire  United Kingdom  LS2 9JT
• Authors:
  • Hibbard, Robin
  • Karnopp, Dean
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. [321]-347
• Serial:
  • Vehicle system dynamics. Vol. 25, no. 5
  • Publisher: University of Leeds

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: In vehicle sensors; Suspension systems; Vehicle dynamics
• Subject Areas: Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00786811
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 2000 12:00AM