|  Organizer  | 
			 Daniel Renjewski, Gereon Hinz  | 
		
		
			|  Module  | 
			 IN0013  | 
		
		
			|  Type  | 
			 Proseminar  | 
		
		
			|  Semester  | 
			 WS 2015/16  | 
		
		
			|  Language  | 
			 English  | 
		
		
			|  Room  | 
			 03.07.011  | 
		
		
			|  Time  | 
			    | 
		
		
			|  ECTS  | 
			 4.0  | 
		
		
			|  SWS  | 
			 2  | 
		
	
 Dates 
office hours 
Daniel Renjewski, Tue & Thu 9-12 and by appointment (starting Oct. 27th),
Gereon Hinz by appointment
Submission deadline for papers: 6.12.2015, 23:59 CET
Presentations: 19.01.2016
 Description 
Controlling a bicycle seems straight-forward and easy to learn. But although the bicycle approaches its 200th anniversary, the unerlying self-stabilizing dynamics are subject of academic curiosity and debate. The recent trend towards flexible mobility and electrically driven bikes opened an entire new marked for assistive technologies in bike-riding.
In this seminar we want to assess the challenges of modelling and controlling bicycles and evaluate past approaches to robotic and autonomous bicycles. The course aims at developing a concept of sensors and actuators needed to autonomously drive a bicycle and assist bicycle riders.
Link: self-stabilization of a perturbed bicycle (Cornell University, USA)
 Topic Assignment 
	
		
			|  Topic  | 
			 Student  | 
		
	
	
		
			|  Market potential and customer demands  | 
			 Neil Neureither  | 
		
		
			|  Crowd science and crowd funding - introduction of new technologies  | 
			 Pierre Louis Bonvin  | 
		
		
			|  Simulators and bicycle dynamics  | 
			 Philipp Schmid  | 
		
		
			|  State estimation - specific challenges in bicycles  | 
			 Nitin Deshpande  | 
		
		
			|  "Related bikes" - 2 wheel, 3 wheel, 4 wheel solutions  | 
			 Felix Uhl  | 
		
	
 Course Material / Resources 
  
 Literature: 
[1] Meijaard, Jaap P., et al. "Linearized dynamics equations for the balance and steer of a bicycle: a benchmark and review." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. Vol. 463. No. 2084. The Royal Society, 2007.
[2] Kooijman, J. D. G., et al. "A bicycle can be self-stable without gyroscopic or caster effects." Science 332.6027 (2011): 339-342.