Bicycle Cruise Control System

Inspiration

Since I was young, I have always been a huge fan of cycling. However, alongside my love for the thrill of downhill cruising, there exists a hatred for the overwhelming effort required for uphill riding. Our team wanted to think of a way to remove that inconvenience from everyday bike rides, leaving you with nothing but a smile on your face when riding.

What it does

Our bicycle cruise control system allows users to set their desired speed for riding and lets a hub motor attached to the rear wheel do the rest of the work.

How we built it

To see a full breakdown of how the system was designed and implemented, please visit this link. Here, you can find information on all calculations required to build our program.

Challenges we ran into

Modeling a real-life system proved to be a difficult task, especially considering our team had no knowledge of the required software prior to starting the hackathon. Finding appropriate values for simulating real-life scenarios took us a lot of research and trial and error, but ultimately the simulation provides realistic results for our system.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our team is most proud of the work we were able to accomplish in such a short amount of time, considering we had no previous experience with this software. After two long nights of reading research papers and Matlab documentation, our dedication to the project paid off and allowed us to put together a realistic, functional system.

What we learned

Through this project, we learned a great amount about the purpose and operation of control systems, and how they can be implemented in the Simulink interface.

Built With

• matlab
• simulink