Development of an on-board trainer system for motorcycle optimal braking

Abstract

A Braking Trainer system is exposed in this thesis with safety road purposes for both novices to expert riders. First the theoretical bases of the dynamic brake motorcycle manoeuvre are presented, reaching to obtain and understand the equations for optimal braking. Then, the part objective of the thesis is developed. Starting from a previous base system, the scope of this work is to obtain a more precise and accurate braking trainer system in order to provide to the motorcycle riders the enough knowledge and experience for get closer to the optimal braking in a rectilinear manoeuvre. In particular, this thesis focuses on the improvement of the part in charge of registering the velocity and acceleration signals of the motorcycle with a certain grade of resolution. For this, it has been designed and implemented a particular group composed of an inductive sensor and wheel encoder in each wheel of the vehicle. Finally the improved system is proved in real and on-board tests in order to validate his function.