...) vehicle dynamics sign convention is used that has the positive x -axis pointing forward, the positive z -axis pointing down, and the positive y -axis pointing to the rider’s right. Positive angles are defined using a right-hand rule. Section 2 deals with the preliminaries...

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... motorcycles vehicle dynamics design engineering quadratic programming The dynamics of motorcycles and their possible modes of instability have been studied for decades. In the case that one or more of these modes is stable, but lightly damped, the potential exists for undesirable responses...