EDWARD - Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping

This project by students in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Adelaide involved the construction of a human operated diwheel called EDWARD. Many diwheels in the past have been human powered or powered by IC engines. This one is purely electric. It has additional functionality lacking in other models, including inbuilt dynamic lateral stability and slosh control to prevent "gerbiling" or tumbling in aggressive braking or acceleration maneuvers. The diwheel also incorporates a unique feature that allows the rider to drive the vehicle when "upside down" - keeping the vehicle in its unstable state.

This video shows the outcomes from the developments during 2010, which includes successful slosh control, swing-up and inversion control.

More information can be found at: http://sites.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/robotics/robotics_projects.php?wpage_id=...

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[SabaskaTheNoob]

What type of engineering is involved in this project? I want to find out more about the actual programming of the vehicle to deal with situations like the stability controlling.

[bscazz]

The students are studying mechatronic engineering. We're programming in Simulink

(a toolbox in Matlab). All the details can be found on the EDWARD website.

[Dovasem]

You might want to google "gerbiling" before you call it that.

[hackedby121212]

Look like "THIS" from South Park, without anal ficsation ))

[brentandvuk]

Wheres the vomit bag?

[all4Shil]

if you see counter strike moves . and you don't know what is it.

[mattfan14]

@4nthr4x rather than being useful IF you find one, I'd say it's useful FOR finding lots of them :D

[LidlFisken]

I read Electric Dickwheel

[FourthWallAirsoft]

how did they make the wheels???

[msteeeve]

Nice. Would be cool if it was counterbalanced so could do the upside thing without "swinging" into it.

[4nthr4x]

very useful if you find coins on the sidewalk :)

[MrSamHart]

@euodeio1 That's not the battery mate. Battery is very well protected. This vehicle is always operated in large, flat clear areas due to the inherenet design limitations. So ground clearance is not really an issue.

[marcellthetuber]

dear snata....