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The objective of the FIVIS project is to develop a bicycle simulator which is able to simulate real life bicycle ride situations as a virtual scenario within an immersive environment. A sample test bicycle is mounted on a motion platform to enable a close to reality simulation of turns and balance situations. The visual field of the bike rider is enveloped within a multi-screen visualisation environment which provides visual data relative to the motion and activity of the test bicycle. That means the bike rider has to pedal and steer the bicycle as a usual bicycle, while the motion is recorded and processed to control the simulation. Furthermore, the platform is fed with real forces and accelerations that have been logged by a mobile data acquisition system during real bicycle test drives. Thus, using a feedback system makes the movements of the platform match to the virtual environment and the reaction of the driver (e.g. steering angle, step rate).
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Herpers, R. et al. (2009). FIVIS – Bicycle Simulator in the Immersive Visualisation Environment “Immersion Square”. In: Zacharias, C., et al. Forschungsspitzen und Spitzenforschung. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2127-7_6
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