.MotorcycleDynamics.Motorcycle

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The model Motorcycle connect all motorbike component: loom, suspension, wheels... In the picture is represented the general schema of the model, where it is possible to observe all sub-system that make up the motorbike. The arrows indicate the existing connections between various component. The road class is without connection because the motorcycle is thougt as a body that navigate in the air.

The process of abstraction has identified like fundamental body characteristics of a motorcycle: the geometries, the weight and the inertia of the various components. Macroscopically the structure can be divided in different fundamental entities:

• Chassis: it include loom, the rotational joint that symbolize steering gear and handlebar;
  
• Front suspension: it is represented by a couple of spring-damper system with a non-linear caratteristic that is customable. It is connected with the rotational joint and hub of front wheel;
  
• Rear suspension: it is costituted by a single spring-dumper system sets in parallel, both with non-linear caracteristic that that is customable;
  
• Rear arm: it connect the chassis with the hub of rear wheel;
  
• Front/Rear brake: it is constituted by disk brake with pneumatic realization;
  
• Wheel: it contains to it inside the model of interaction with the ground;
  
• Pilot: it represents the pilot and it contanins to it inside the center of mass and the inertia of the superior and inferior part of this and the control laws of the motorcycle.