Design and Analysis of Gyrowheel for Stabilization of a Bicycle

This paper contains detailed description of designing and analysis of Gyrowheel used for the stabilization of the bicycle. The Gyrowheel is a special kind of wheel which is designed as an alternative to the training wheels used in bicycle for new learners.The Gyrowheel works on the principle of Gyroscopic effect cause by the rotating flywheel .The Gyrowheel consists of a solid disk flywheel inside it which is spinning independently. The flywheel rotates at a high speed and creates a gyroscopic effect known as gyroscopic precession. The Gyrowheel detects the direction of fall and precession the direction of fall and re-stabilizes the wheel. It is design as a special type of wheel working on mechanical aspects that would be able to balance itself i.e. it would maintain vertical position because the rotating flywheel nullified all the forces acting upon the wheel. For designing of the Gyrowheel, 3d modeling software used is CATIA V5.0. Structural analysis is done to find thestress distribution and the deformation on the model. For structural analysis ANSYS software is used.