The Delft Bicycle Laboratory wishes to develop a bicycle simulator : a stationary bicycle on a moveable platform, driven by a computer model of a bicycle, on which one can sit, steer, lean and pedal. Visual feedback will be done by a single screen with a bicyclist's avatar in a simple Nintendo Wii-like virtual environment. For the design of such a bicycle simulator we need to know what the motions are that generally occur during normal bicycling; these are then the motion system requirements for the simulator. Therefore this project should address the folowing questinons: * What are the steer and lean angle, rates and accelerations which occur during normal bicycling? * What are the steer and lean torque exerted by the rider during normal bicycling? This will be investigated for three groups of riders: novice (can barely ride a bicycle), average experienced and elderly riders. (Author/publisher)
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