Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

Electronic Control Unit and Skid Detection in a Motor Bike

Piyush Nana Agade

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Many countries today face the problem of having more number of two-wheeled and three-wheeled vehicles than they can handle. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise that number of accidents involving two-wheeled vehicles in such countries is very high. In view of this, we have come up with an actuation and control system with the primary aim of making a motor bike safer. Inclination of the vehicle, its acceleration along the path and bumps on the road would be detected using a 3-axis accelerometer. NI LabVIEW would be used to analyze this data and detect the driving conditions using various Fuzzy Logic algorithms. The prototype designed would perform following three tasks: 1. Dynamically control the headlights, tail-lights and the indicators. i.e., increase or decrease the range of the lights depending upon whether the bike is accelerating or decelerating, tilting the headlight while turning to cover the blind spots, automatically turning the indicators on and off during turning and so on. 2. Detect the various driving conditions viz., standstill, smooth riding and rough riding. 3. Detect when the bike is skidding or about to skid. This can then be used as an actuation to various systems such as ABS (Anti-lock Braking System), CoG (Center of Gravity) compensation, SPS (Skid Prevention System), etc. This paper includes development a LabVIEW VI which detects all the above mentioned conditions and provides an estimate of speed using the acceleration values. The data used for analysis are obtained by real life testing on a bike and a hardware prototype.

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Piyush Nana Agade Electronic Control Unit and Skid Detection in a Motor Bike International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 12 December 2014

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