DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST BENCH FOR BRAKING SYSTEMS AND MECHANISMS OF TWO-WHEELED VEHICLES
An increase in the number of motorcycles, mopeds and scooters on public roads entails an increase in road accidents with their involvement. Due to their design, motorcycles are prone to tipping over and falling down when they start to slide during braking, leading to the loss of control and stability. The development of safety systems is required to improve safety of motorcycles and other two-wheeled vehicles. These systems of active safety are those using force sources of information as the information source for the system control algorithms to operate. The sources of information about road conditions include force factors, braking force, lateral forces, normal reactions in the contact patch between the wheel and the road surface. The development of new anti-lock braking systems and their improved algorithms of control based on force factors requires a number of bench and road tests with the test bench creating and implementing road conditions, which correspond to road conditions of conducting tests.