Title : 
Support control to promote skill of riding a unicycle
         
        
            Author : 
Kinoshita, Masaya ; Yoshida, Kohei ; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki ; Ohsaki, Hiroshi ; Yoshida, Hideo ; Iwase, Masami ; Hatakeyama, Shoshiro
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput. & Syst. Eng., Tokyo Denki Univ., Hatoyama
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we propose control system which supports unicycle operation for human´s skill up. Therefore, the unicycle operation analysis method is proposed first, and it is shown usefulness by experiment. The element used for analysis are rider´s CP (Center of Pressure) and MBP (Moment Balancing Point) which negates a saddle rotation moment. Using those elements, we propose evaluation method of unicycle rider´s operation. Dynamic unicycle simulator is used for supports unicycle operation for human´s skill up.
         
        
            Keywords : 
bicycles; control system analysis; stability; center of pressure; control system; dynamic unicycle simulator; moment balancing point; saddle rotation moment; support control; unicycle operation analysis; unicycle riding; Actuators; Analytical models; Bicycles; Control systems; Humans; Modeling; Motion measurement; Pressure measurement; Safety; Systems engineering and theory; analysis; dexterously; unicycle;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008. SMC 2008. IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Singapore
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-2383-5
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1062-922X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811619