Low cost autonomous navigation and control of a mechanically balanced bicycle with dual locomotion mode

On the lines of the huge and varied efforts in the field of automation with respect to technology development and innovation of vehicles to make them run on electric power and moreover autonomously, this paper presents a research and innovation applied to a bicycle. A normal daily-use bicycle has been modified at low-cost such that it runs autonomously, while maintaining its original form i.e. the manual drive. Hence, a bicycle which could be normally driven by any human and with a press of switch could run autonomously according to the user's needs has been developed.