An electric bike - but not as we know it..........

[Jeremy]

Take a look at this for a novel approach to making an "electric bike" : Engineers teach a robot how to ride a bike. [VIDEO]

 

[jerrysimon]

I got one of those for Christmas


[video=youtube_share;nqOIchNSuIY]http://youtu.be/nqOIchNSuIY[/video]


The first thing I need to do is disable the music!

Seriously though interesting video I think I have seen it posted elsewhere. Is it full sized ?

Jerry

 

[Jeremy]

Seriously though interesting video I think I have seen it posted elsewhere. Is it full sized ?

Jerry

It looks to be fairly small scale. The impressive thing (to me, at least) is the way that it retains balance, and even manages to start from a standstill (and stop) without falling over. I'd imagine getting that right must have caused a fair bit of head-scratching amongst the programmers on the team that put it together.

 

[Ajax]

It looks to be fairly small scale. The impressive thing (to me, at least) is the way that it retains balance, and even manages to start from a standstill (and stop) without falling over. I'd imagine getting that right must have caused a fair bit of head-scratching amongst the programmers on the team that put it together.

I can see how they might do this. You'd have basic steering input from an rf controller, but then primary systems would sense tilt and and apply a steering overide to adjust the balance. The crank actually seems to be connected by belt to the rear wheel.

Of course i'll only be impressed when the robot pops a wheely.

 

[Old_Dave]

Gyro ? (a very small Coriolis force one, lol)


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[jazper53]

Reminds me of my journeys home from the pub on a saturday night