Nonlinear steering oscillations of motorcycles

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 773-778

  Shaeri, Arash ^a   Limebeer, David J N ^a   Sharp, Robin S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINEARIZATION; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RESONANCE; SPEED CONTROL; STEERING;

NONLINEAR OSCILLATIONS; NONLINEAR STEERING OSCILLATIONS; SUPERHARMONIC RESPONSES; VIBRATION AMPLITUDES;

MOTORCYCLES;

EID: 14344260276     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/cdc.2004.1428756     Document Type: Conference Paper

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