Sara Youngblood successfully defended her MSc thesis titled Engineering Bicycle Stability: A Study of Control Strategies for Crash Prevention on Icy and Normal Terrain on May 28, 2025. Sara developed a pair of non-linear bicycle models, one without lateral tire slip and another with tire slip. In the tire slip …

Kenneth Pasma successfully defended "Model Matching Control Applied to Bicycles" on August 28, 2024. Kenneth developed a controller for our steer-by-wire bicycle's steering motor that enables matching the bicycle's dynamics to that of a reference bicycle. A model matching controller strives to make the input-output dynamics of the controlled vehicle …

The lab is moving to TU Delft this summer.

Blog post on the design and fabrication of a theoretically optimal handling bicycle