KAIST interactive bicycle racing simulator: the 2nd version with advanced features

Hardware design for an electro-mechanical bicycle simulator in an immersive virtual reality environment

“…Our interest differs in that it primarily concerns the construction of a working bicycle with sufficient fidelity to reconstruct the force-displacement relationship in real time in order to serve as a platform for psychological experiments involving decision-making. [Kwon et al, 2001;Kwon et al, 2002] was designed to completely immerse a rider in a bicycle race with other riders on similar bicycles. It features a bicycle mounted on a six-degree-of-freedom Stewart platform, with motions emphasizing the vertical movement (heave), side-to-side (roll), and front-to-rear (pitch) movements.…”

“…The simulators in Table 1 all have their own unique theoretical background implemented into the simulator. They promoted safe exercise [Tang et al, 2007;Kikuchi et al, 2012], derived mathematical models [He et al, 2005], implemented Stewart platforms [Kwon et al, 2001;Kwon et al, 2002] and analyzed safety [Miyanoue et al, 2015]. Each of the five reference systems provide programmable, dynamic pedal resistance while delivering the steering angle and velocity to the graphical simulator system, but each one failed to compare their theoretical results with the real world.…”