Synchronous steering control of a parallel bicycle.

This paper describes the methods and experiments on synchronous steering control of a parallel bicycle which has twin wheels on the outside of the parallel driving axes and an inverted-pendulum-type upper structure. The bicycle can be steered by controlling rotation of each wheel driven by each DC servo-motor. In order to drive the vehicle along an arbitrary path, both wheels must be steered and synchronously controlled. Both synchronous control methods are proposed. A gain changing method and a servo-reference method are each applied for the servo-control. The steering and driving control of the vehicle has been attained by using synchronous servo-control methods through here are available for steering and servo-control without losing stability of the vehicle.