by Jason Moore Our bicycle dynamics project has gotten some press in the UK through Catherine Hess’s science writing. Catherine Hess, Ron Hess’s daughter, competed in a Welcome Trust science writing competition and got honorable mention. More recently the essay has been published in the Guardian and has been spreading … Continue reading
by Jason Moore David Levinson gave a nice talk this past week on the dynamics of the Explorer 1. The United States first rocket to launch a satellite in orbit. I posted the talk online for viewing. David Levinson who wrote two nice books with Thomas Kane, of which I’ve spent … Continue reading
by Jason Moore Dr. Manoj Srinivasan from Ohio State University gives two talks entitled “To Walk or To Run…” and “Why walk and run: Towards a theory of human locomotion” at the UC Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering seminar on January 12, 2012.
At DSCC 2012 I decided to go sans slides and just reflect on some of the issues in my field and topics that I think need to grow and change. I think the talk went over well. I at least had some folks show interest in sharing their work more. … Continue reading
by Jason Moore We hosted two sessions at this year’s ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA with upwards of 20 experts in our small sub field. We had representation from Japan, the USA, the Netherlands, and Italy. This post details some of what went on. … Continue reading
by Andrew Kickertz In case you want to know more of the gory details about the bowling project, there is a link to the current version of my thesis at the top of the project page. You have to be logged in to view it, and I request that you not … Continue reading
by Andrew Kickertz Introduction to using Blender / Bullet to detect and respond to collisions of rough elastic bodies, particularly bowling pins and balls. For the past few months I have been developing a Matlab-based bowling-oriented physics engine for simulating the collisions of balls and pins, as well as the … Continue reading
by Jason Moore This is a description of an identification procedure for the bicycle based around the benchmark canonical form. Model structure The identification of the linear dynamics of the bicycle can be formulated with respect to the benchmark canonical form realized in [Meijaard2007]. Mq¨+vC1q˙+[gK0+v2K2]q=T where the time varying states … Continue reading
by Jason Moore I’d like to share my dissertation work at an upcoming conference, but ASME wants the copyright. What do I do about it? I’m wrapping up my dissertation (moorepants.github.com/dissertation) and want to present some of the material in it at some upcoming conferences in my field. One that … Continue reading
by Jason Moore I’ve made some progress on viewing the results of my bicycle model identification. This is a summary of the current state. I’m about to start writing up the results I’ve obtained on identifying a linear bicycle model. As I’ve explored the data, my confidence growing in it … Continue reading