This paper presents a novel concept of mobility that provides dynamic stability and rapid locomotion. The concept, called Gyrover, is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot that can be considered as a single wheel actuated by a spinning flywheel attached to a two-link manipulator at the wheel bearing and drive motor. The spinning flywheel acts as a gyroscope to stabilize the robot, and...

Electric vehicle (EV) is one of the effective solutions to control emission of greenhouses gases in the world. It is of interest for future transportation due to its sustainability and efficiency by automotive manufacturers. Various electrical motors have been used for propulsion system of electric vehicles in last decades. In this paper brushed DC motor, Induction motor (IM), switched reluctan...

An integrated fault-diagnosis algorithm for a motor sensor of in-wheel independent drive electric vehicles is presented. This paper proposes a method that integrates the high- and low-level fault diagnoses to improve the robustness and performance of the system. For the high-level fault diagnosis of vehicle dynamics, a planar two-track non-linear model is first selected, and the longitudinal an...

mowing. It is run along the ground on one large wheel which is f ree of the motor operat ing the cutter bar. I t can be tilted to cut up or down slopes and can be pivoted sharply in any direction. It has been found part icularly valuable for cutting around trees, boulders, t raps, creek-bottoms, and other golf course obstructions which formerly required hand cutt ing. The motor scythe, powered ...

This study documents that lead weights, which are used to balance motor vehicle wheels, are lost and deposited in urban streets, that they accumulate along the outer curb, and that they are rapidly abraded and ground into tiny pieces by vehicle traffic. The lead is so soft that half the lead deposited in the street is no longer visible after little more than 1 week. This lead loading of urban s...

INTRODUCTION Published studies investigating the role of driver sleepiness in road crashes in low and middle-income countries have largely focused on heavy vehicles. We investigated the contribution of driver sleepiness to four-wheel motor vehicle crashes in Fiji, a middle-income Pacific Island country. METHOD The population-based case control study included 131 motor vehicles involved in cra...

CAMPBELL, R. J. AND L. V. DI CARA. Running wheel avoidance behavior in the Wistar/Kyoto spontaneously hypertensive rat. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 19(4) 473-480, 1977. Conditioned avoidance acquisition was studied in the Okamoto-Aoki spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and in the Wistar/Kyoto (WKYN) strain from which SHRs were derived. Results have demonstrated that those rats within the WKYN foundation ...

With the increase in tightening of carbon neutral policies, electric new energy vehicles have become a top priority development automotive industry. The integrated vehicle wheel (hub motor) can effectively optimize structure and reduce weight consumption. At same time, feature that four tires be driven separately is also conducive to application various control algorithms. In this paper, genera...

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSMs) are considered as the promising electromagnetic structure, especially for In-Wheel motor electric and hybrid propulsion applications. The design for a direct-drive wheel motor PMSM require a 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) based investigation of the output torque especially when the end winding is considered and in the case of skewed machine, this p...