Authors:
            
                    João Sequeira
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Marco di Vittori
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Kinematics, Dynamics, PID Control, MPC Control, Nonlinear Control.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Autonomous Agents
                    ; 
                        Control and Supervision Systems
                    ; 
                        Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
                    ; 
                        Modeling, Simulation and Architectures
                    ; 
                        Robot Design, Development and Control
                    ; 
                        Robotics and Automation
                    ; 
                        Vehicle Control Applications
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                This paper surveys the kinematics of bikes and details the construction of a dynamics model for a motorbike using the Lagrangian approach. Using data from a typical sports motorbike, a dynamics model is obtained by symbolic computation. This model, of high algebraic complexity, is then wrapped as a function and used for control purposes. Control strategies based on PID, MPC, and nonlinear control are discussed and simulation results for each of them are presented.