1. Honda Motorcycle Riding Trainer
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. announced its decision to market the Riding Trainer to authorized Honda motorcycle dealers and other corporations in Japan. It is designed to teach motorcycle safety effectively. Developed with a view to wider use of motorcycle safety training devices, the Riding Trainer teaches riders to foresee and predict the dangers encountered in motorcycle riding. (Source)
2. Honda Motorcycle Simulator
Honda's purpose for developing riding simulators was to provide a safe experience on simulated hazardous situations in mixed traffic which cannot be learned from lecture courses and practical skill training alone and let drivers to correctly understand the processes falling into such situations. Therefore, the foremost theme was how to practically reproduce the conditions of rider himself and surrounding situations changing moment by moment. (Source)
3. University of Padova Motorcycle Simulator
Universiti of Padova developed a motorcycle riding simulator in order to assess the riding ability and to study man-vehicle interaction in safe conditions. The development of a mechanical system well suited to simulate motorcycle dynamics, real time simulation and the generation of satisfactory motion and visual cues of typical motorcycle maneuvers were the main design issues. The reduction of costs and of overall dimensions was important as well. The simulator consists of four sub-systems: a 5 degree-of-freedom serial motion system that generates motion cues; a visual system that generates visual cues; a sensors system that monitors rider’s control actions; a powerful multi-body code that simulates vehicle dynamics. Only one PC is needed for governing the whole system.
Source: A MOTORCYCLE RIDING SIMULATOR FOR ASSESING THE RIDER ABILITY AND FOR TESTING RIDER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS. Cossalter, Vittore, et al. Padova : Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Padova, 2006. ISBN 2-85782-641-9
4. Moris Motorcycle Simulator
The Moris Motorcycle developed in Pisa, Italy has 7 DOFs (vertical, lateral and longitudinal displacements, roll, pitch and yaw angles and steer) This project is in the framework of the Esprit project by a consortium composed by industrial partners (Piaggio and Humanware from Italy and HEAD acoustics from Germany) and by academic partners (Scuola Superiore S. Anna from Italy, Halmstad University from Sweden and University of Bochum from Germany). Such project started in 1995 with the aim of developing a two-wheeled motorcycle simulator conceived as a tool for the designer to acquire data on motorcycle handling and stability at the design stage as well as to collect data about rider control behavior implications in motorcycle performances.
Source: THE MORIS MOTORCYCLE SIMULATOR: AN OVERVIEW. D. Ferrazzin, F. Salsedo, F. Barbagli, C. A. Avizzano, G. Di Pietro, A. Brogni, M. Vignoni, M. Bergamasco. Pisa : Carducci 40, 2001.
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