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DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF GYRO MONO RAIL
Authors: B. Sudhakar1 , S.Naveenprasath2
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The gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, or gyro-stabilized monorail are terms for a single rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel to overcome the inherent instability of balancing on top of a single rail. A monorail is a railway in which the track consists of a single rail, typically elevated. The dynamic stabilization of a mono rail or two wheeler automobile requires that a torque acting on a car from an outside be neutralized by a torque produce within the car by a gyroscope. The vehicle runs on a single conventional rail, so that without the balancing system it would topple over. a spinning wheel is mounted in a gimbals frame whose axis of rotation (the precession axis) is perpendicular to the spin axis. The assembly is mounted on the vehicle chassis such that, at equilibrium, the spin axis, precession axis and vehicle roll axis are mutually perpendicular. The Sweeney-Ferreira Gyro-Dynamics Monorail, like many other monorail concepts, never made it beyond the test track.
Keywords—Mono Rail,Gyro Mono Rail, Gyroscope Mono Rail, Single Track Rail.