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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2015
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Shirokura, Saitama, JP;
Kazumasa Ozaki, Saitama, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is an inverted pendulum type vehicle capable of properly estimating whether or not a rider is thereon and controlling the travel of the vehicle by reflecting the result of the estimation. An inverted pendulum type vehicle, in which a traveling unit is driven by electric motorsR,L, includes an occupied/unoccupied estimating unit (a first estimating unit), which estimates whether or not a rider is on the vehiclebased on the observation values of the energizing currents of the electric motorsR,L. A control unitcontrols the operations of the electric motorsR,L according to the estimation result of the estimating unit