Design and Calibration of a 6-Component Balance on a Bicycle Steer†
Department of Electro Mechanics, KU Leuven, 9000 Leuven, Belgium
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Presented at the 18th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM18), Brussels, Belgium, 1–5 July 2018.
Proceedings 2018, 2(8), 520; https://doi.org/10.3390/ICEM18-05414
Published: 29 June 2018
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 18th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics)
The present article describes the methodology used to design and calibrate a 6-component balance. This balance is utilized in an instrumented bike measuring the forces applied on the handlebars. This instrumentation bike maps all riders induced loads. In the designing process, Finite Element Analysis was used. Calibrating the balance was done using the Least Square Regression Method which allows combining multiple loads during calibration and thus requires less samples. The balance operates with a maximum full scale error of 0.53%.
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D’hondt, J.; Dieltiens, S.; Juwet, M. Design and Calibration of a 6-Component Balance on a Bicycle Steer. Proceedings 2018, 2, 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/ICEM18-05414
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D’hondt J, Dieltiens S, Juwet M. Design and Calibration of a 6-Component Balance on a Bicycle Steer. Proceedings. 2018; 2(8):520. https://doi.org/10.3390/ICEM18-05414
Chicago/Turabian StyleD’hondt, Jordi; Dieltiens, Sien; Juwet, Marc. 2018. "Design and Calibration of a 6-Component Balance on a Bicycle Steer" Proceedings 2, no. 8: 520. https://doi.org/10.3390/ICEM18-05414
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