Construction of Riding Simulator for Two-wheeled Vehicle

This paper describes the development and evaluation of a riding simulator (RS) for two-wheeled vehicles to analyze rider control behavior from the viewpoints of human factors and control engineering. In simulator development, sense of realism is divided into riding sensation and handling feeling. In addition, they are governed by the motion equation and the required pseudo-experience. In this study, we show the effectiveness of wide-angle change and stereoscopic vision in the front visual information. Also, we show that we could lower the degree of freedom of the system in normal travelling conditions. After that, we ensured the equation of motion could be stable at all speed ranges. Through these measures, we were able to reproduce the sense of a real vehicle's riding feeling and handling feeling. Since this simulator is able to generate a higher sense of presence than conventional RS, we were able to create a tool for analyzing the behavior of rider steering.