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Welcome to learn from Prof. Emeritus Arend L. Schwab, Biomechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, who will give a presentation entitled On the Art and Science of Cycling. Prof Schwab is visiting us in conjunction to Tianyou Li’s, Chalmers University licentiate presentation. Prof Marco Dozza, Chalmers University, is hosting the seminar and the project e-Model, sponsored by Chalmers, is supporting this event.

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ABSTRACT
Riding a bicycle is an acquired skill. At rest the system is highly unstable yet, given some forward speed, it is easy to stabilize. Over the past 150 years scores of people have been attracted to this subject, either for a dissertation, a hobby or sometimes as part of a life’s work. Unfortunately, few results agree and there is little generality on the basic features that make a bicycle stable and why some bicycles are easier to control than others. In this talk I will focus on the dynamics and control of the bicycle after which I will address some interesting and open issues in bicycling science.

ABOUT PROF AREND
Arend is a professor emeritus from TUDelft Delft and visiting professor at LUT, Finland. He is the founder of the Delft bicycle dynamics lab. He teaches mechanics, advanced dynamics and applied math classes. He is interested in classical rigid-body dynamics with contacts (collisions, friction, non-holonomic constraints). He works in multibody dynamics, biomechanics, bicycle dynamics and control, sports engineering, and speed skating. He has also worked in robotics and legged locomotion. He usually prefer simple models. His degrees are from Engineering at Dordrecht and Delft (BSc. 1979, MSc. 1984, PhD. 2002). The work on bicycle dynamics started during his sabbatical (2002/2003) at Cornell University with Andy Ruina.

Read more: http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/schwab

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