Active Human Surrogate Control of a Motorcycle: Stabilizing and De-Stabilizing

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

McGuan, Shawn P., author.

Conference Name:

International Congress & Exposition (1993-03-01 : Detroit, Michigan, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1993

Summary:

Two aspects of a motorcycle injury crash are studied in this paper. 1) What were the rider's actions which led to unsafe handling of the motorcycle? 2) What were the injury-producing mechanisms present during the crash? This inquiry illustrates methods and procedures which are useful for motorcycle safety design as well as reliability analysis. The ADAMS mechanical system simulation program is used to generate computer models of a motorcycle and rider under rider control to simulate a mild lane change maneuver. Manual control and vehicle response characteristics are evaluated for a cases involving a system disturbance such as an encounter with a road pothole during the turning phase in the lane change. For the case when the rider/cycle system becomes unstable resulting in a crash, the 3-dimensional joint strength model for the human surrogate rider model switches from an active, motorcycle control model (pre-crash phase) to a passive, rebound model (crash phase), derived from the Hybrid III crash dummy. A biomechanical stress review is then performed to study the injury potential resulting from the crash

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Publisher Number:

930226

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