TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Self-steering ability of the proposed new concept of independently rotating wheels using inverse tread conicity
JO  - Vehicle system dynamics
A1  - Suda, Yoshihiro
A1  - Wang, Wenjun
A1  - Nishina, Minoru
A1  - Lin, Shihpin
A1  - Michitsuji, Yohei
SP  - 291
EP  - 302
VL  - 50
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - This paper proposes the use of independently rotating wheels with inverse tread conicity to get self-steering ability without any complex bogie structure. The effectiveness of the vehicle with two single-axle bogies that use two independently rotating wheel units with inverse tread conicity is proved by the 1/10 scale model experiment. The full vehicle model is made by means of multibody dynamics software SIMPACKTM. Both the experiment and simulation results show that the proposed inverse tread with independently rotating wheels have good performance. Running stability and curving ability of the proposed inverse tread for independently rotating wheels can be realised by using the semi-active yaw damper.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0042-3114
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00423114.2012.672749
ID  - ref1
ER  -