Low Cost Autonomous Navigation and Control of a Mechanically Balanced Bicycle with Dual Locomotion Mode

TL;DR

This paper introduces a low-cost modification to a standard bicycle enabling it to operate autonomously while preserving manual control, combining innovation in vehicle automation with practical, cost-effective design.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel, low-cost method to retrofit a regular bicycle with autonomous capabilities without sacrificing manual operation.

Findings

Successfully converted a standard bicycle to autonomous mode

Maintained manual control alongside autonomous operation

Demonstrated practical, low-cost implementation

Abstract

On the lines of the huge and varied efforts in the field of automation with respect to technology development and innovation of vehicles to make them run autonomously, this paper presents an innovation to a bicycle. A normal daily use bicycle was modified at low cost such that it runs autonomously, while maintaining its original form i.e. the manual drive. Hence, a bicycle which could be normally driven by any human and with a press of switch could run autonomously according to the needs of the user has been developed.