Patent ID: 9245395
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: B60W,B62H,B62J,G07C

Claim Text:
1. A rider characteristic determining method for determining control characteristics of a rider controlling a saddle riding type vehicle, the rider characteristic determining method comprising: a turning movement discriminating step that discriminates a section where the saddle riding type vehicle has made a turning movement; a vehicle state amount detecting step that detects at least one of a roll rate, a roll angle, a pitch rate, a pitch angle, and a caster angle of the saddle riding type vehicle as a vehicle state amount; a component separating step that separates prediction components that are low-frequency band components lower than a threshold frequency set beforehand, from the vehicle state amount in the section where the turning movement has been made; and a turning characteristic determining step that determines a turning characteristic of the saddle riding type vehicle; wherein the turning characteristic determining step calculates a turning performance score of the saddle riding type vehicle based on the prediction components of the vehicle state amount.