[ODE] Bike Balancing!
Ross L. Hatton
rlhatton at cmu.edu
Wed Nov 7 05:31:16 MST 2007
Would using an inverted pendulum to simulate the rider (and swinging it
back and forth to apply balancing forces) work for you?
James Steele wrote:
> I'm back to writing motor-bike physics again and scratching my head over
> the best way to get the bike to balance. So I'm wondering if any of you
> fine people on the ode lists have an idea on how to approach this?
>
> I've used an amotor joint previously to balance the bike, but this
> caused some weird issues with the tire model I had written. Also, the
> motor of course only rotated the body around its COM causing the wheels
> to slide back and forth lateraly. when what i want is the bike to pivot
> at the contact points of the wheels.
>
> So can anybody reccomend another method of artificially balancing a bike
> in ODE? Is there some sort of joint that I've previously overlooked
> that will to the job? I have a feeling that none of the joints are
> suited to this task, and will have to apply a "push" force above the COM
> but I'm, scratching my head with this concept also.
>
> So are there any suggestions? Any books/articles I should perhaps take a
> look at?
>
>
>
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