This paper presents driving and balancing control of a single-wheel mobile robot system called the name of GYROBO. GYROBO utilizes a gyro effect to stabilize itself. Three actuators are used to perform driving and balancing tasks. After modification of hardware and relocation of materials inside the wheel housing of the previous GYROBO model, performances of trajectory following control as well...

Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) are driven by two energy convertors, i.e., an Internal Combustion (IC) engine and an electric machine. To make powertrain of HEV as efficient as possible, proper management of the energy elements is essential. This task is completed by HEV controller, which splits power between the IC engine and Electric Motor (EM). In this paper, a Genetic-Fuzzy control strategy...

Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) is associated with the risk of sleepiness-related car accidents and worse driving simulator performances. Nevertheless, driving simulator studies failed to predict the real-world accident risk. Two-thirds of patients with OSAS will never experience a car crash, so that restricting their driving licence because of an OSAS diagnosis is not feasible.

This paper aims at describing the architectural model of an adaptive force-feedback for a By Wire steering wheel system. This solution uses a steering wheel to replicate the reactive torque law which allows the driver to complete a precise driving scenario or a task with the higher performances. Then, the steering wheel adapts the reactive torque to the driving scenario. Since the design of thi...

A simple simulator for evaluating the physical capabilities of severely handicapped prospective drivers was developed and evaluated. The simulator presents a two-dimensional tracking task to be carried out using the driving controls of the Scott van, which is a uni-lever servo-controlled vehicle designed for the severely impaired. Twenty-five able-bodied subjects were tested on the simulator an...

The paper presents the original contributions on structural and functional analysis of numerical controlled (NC) axes of industrial robots (IR) with electric driving system. Main purpose of the paper is to define and validate an assisted selection procedure of IR’s NC axes optimal structure imposed specification accordingly IR’s output for performance level. For this purpose a complex assisted ...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of using CVT (Continuous Variable Transmission) in Samand automobile.  For this analysis, the conventional Samand and a Samand equipted with CVT are modeled and simulated by using Simulink based software (ADVISOR) and the performances are compared.  This analysis includes the effect of driving cycle, fuel consumption and the efficiency of components of ...