Bobsleigh
You can discover all the secrets of the Sochi 2014 Olympic track just by being seated at more than three thousand kilometers away from the Olympic gut? The answer to this question is yes. '' And yesterday's news that the ETH Zurich has developed a driving simulator that allows athletes to get off virtually along the 1500 meter length of the Russian track.
Wednesday 18 September 2013 4 minutes reading time
The simulator has been realized thanks to the close collaboration between two researchers: Pascal Arnold and Georg Rempfler. Arnold, after more than four years of study, two weeks ago he received a PhD focused on the study of engineering bobsleigh. Rempfler however, has focused his PHD on the development of a driving simulator that allows athletes of the Swiss National bob to simulate the mechanical point of view the reactions of a shoe thrown at high speed on a iced gut.
The two doctoral theses albeit on different topics, were complementary to develop a special software that would allow you graphically represent the new casing of Sochi 2014. Georg Rempfler, it is in fact based on data collected by fellow mathematicians Arnold to make a simulation program that very precisely retraces the entire length of the track'' Russian in addition to considering the angles of inclination of the various curves.
Rempfler, interviewed by Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger, he added: "From the graphical point of view the track was carried out from mathematical data, therefore the error margins are quite low.'' As far as the mechanical aspect of the simulator, we tried to create a product that simulates each degree of freedom acting at the level of the axial movement of the bob. therefore the time that athletes will score the simulator will not be so far away from precision timekeeping who register actually next February at the Olympics. "
According to the director of the Swiss national competitive Ivo Rüegg, this particular simulator will bring great benefits to its pilots, "With this system we could try every day to get to the Olympic track and Prince'' appointment'' of the next season with a good preparation "The Swiss technician, however, has continued," obviously this tool is itself a simulator, therefore not all aspects can be considered real beginning with the sense of speed and the force of gravity. "
Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States have focused on working with major automakers to build new bob, Switzerland instead was advised by a university center. At this point a question arises spontaneously, those who have made the right choice? In late November, we will have the first answers.
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