ELECTRIC VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE

摘要

An omni-directional electric vehicle (11) includes: a body (12) having a chair portion (23); an operation detection unit (13) which detects an operation direction and an operation amount of an operation input; a travel control information generation unit (14) which generates, based on the operation direction and the operation amount, travel control information including (i) a target straight-movement speed for moving the body (12) in a forward/backward direction and (ii) a target rotation speed for rotating the body (12) about a rotation center; and a control unit (15) which drives a movement mechanism of the body (12) according to the travel control information. The travel control information generation unit (14) changes, based on the target straight-movement speed, the rotation center for the target rotation speed from a reference position which is set virtually and fixedly to the body (12) in the forward/backward direction.