Lab Meetings

Lab meetings are held every Monday at 2 pm in the Sports Biomechanics Lab (2328 Academic Surge).

Description

Some ideas for topics are:

Present research progress
Practice presentations
Present a tool you find useful and would like to share
Review a journal paper (dynamics and control related)
Review each others papers

The format of the meetings would be such that about once per quarter each lab member would present an item from the above list. In the case of reviewing a journal paper or a paper that is being submitted for publication, the paper needs to be distributed at least one week prior to the meeting so that it can be read by everybody and a meaningful discussion of the paper can be had. In the case of reviewing each others work (i.e., conference or journal paper), it should be sent out no later than the morning of the day prior to the meeting.

The overall length of the meeting should be 45 minutes, with no more than 20-25 minutes being taken by a person presenting.

The main objective of the meetings is to share knowledge and keep abreast of relevant research being done in our lab and outside of it. Meeting topics should be related to dynamic systems and control.

If you prepare any electronic media (presentation, links, program, etc), please post them to the website.

Schedule

Spring 2012

Date	Presentation title	Presenter	Links, slides, documents, etc.
April 16	Collision detection algorithms	Andrew	Collision detection algorithms pdf, Videos folder, Videos on Youtube
April 23	Metabolic Factors in Running	Gilbert	Metabolic Factors Limiting Performance in Marathon Runners
April 30		Elliot
May 7	Bicycle Dynamics and Control	Ziqi	Bicycle Dynamics and Control, by Astrom et al. A bicycle can be self-stable without gyroscopic or caster effects, by Schwab et al., 2011.
May 14	Basics of Musculoskeletal Modeling	Colin	Presentation
May 21		Angadh
May 28		Holiday!
June 4		Aurelia
June 11		Luke

Winter 2012

Date	Presentation title	Presenter	Links, slides, documents, etc.
Jan 13	The Rattleback	Luke
Jan 20	The Babyboot	Aurelia
Jan 27	* at 12 noon	Sam Walcott
Feb 3		Elliott
Feb 10	Impact mechanics in bowling	Andrew	Outline, Impact mechanics.pdf, Videos
Feb 17	My Dissertation System	Jason	A lilttle essay
Feb 24	Jump ropes	Ziqi
Mar 2	Bioenergetic modeling	Gilbert
Mar 9	Variable-mass cylinders	Angadh
Mar 16	Badminton simulation	Daniel
Mar 23

Fall 2011

Date	Presentation title	Presenter	Links, slides, documents, etc.
Oct 5	Bowling ball dynamics a la Hopkins & Patterson	Andrew K	Slides, Hopkins Patterson 1977.pdf
Oct 12	Golf Ball Aerodynamics	Colin Smith	Choi et al - 2006.pdf, Golf Ball Presentation.pdf
Oct 19	Nonlinear Programming	Gilbert Gede	Nonlinear Programming (NLP)
Oct 26	Predicting ski jumps	Mont Hubbard
Nov 2	Baseball bat sweet spot	Elliot Marshall
Nov 9	Inertial Properties of Humans	Jason Moore	information
Nov 16	Variable Mass System	Angadh Nanjangud
Nov 23	Thanksgiving
Nov 30	Tufte on PowerPoint	Mont Hubbard	Favorite passages , Link to paper

Spring 2011

Date	Presentation Title	Presenter	Links, Slides, Documents, etc
April 7	Databases (pyTables)	Jason	Some stuff on databases
April 14	Holiday Pictures	Peter
April 21	Gyrostats	Luke	Gyrostat slides, and LaTeX source
April 28		Thomas	LaTeX (Beamer) source, movie01, movei02
May 5	Euler Parameters & Bowling	Andrew K.	Huston et al 1979, Euler Parameters & Bowling
May 12		Andrew E.
May 19	Gravity Sensing Plants	Evan
May 26	Direct Collocation	Gilbert	Direct Collocation Lab Presentation
June 2		Mont
June 9

Winter 2011

Date	Presentation Title	Presenter	Links, Slides, Documents, etc
Jan 13	Chaos	Luke	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2397780
Jan 20	Kalman filtering	Gilbert	Kalman Filtering Presentation
Jan 27	Introduction	Peter	Introduction
Feb 3	ASTM Ski Jump Standards	Mont
Feb 10	Drawing quality figures	Jason	Presentation and Gallery
Feb 17	Spacecraft Hardware	Andrew E.
Feb 24	Yahtzee for robots	Andrew K.	Yahtzee Presentation, Version 6, Version 7.20, Version 8
March 3	Eye tracking	Andrew K.	Eye and head tracking presentation
March 10
March 17

Fall 2010

Date	Presentation Title	Presenter	Links, Slides, Documents, etc
Oct 27	Slotted Discs	Luke
Oct 4	Version Control and Git	Jason	Intro to version control and Git
Oct 11	Bioenergetic Models	Gilbert	Human Bioenergetic Models
Oct 18	No meeting: Gilbert, Jason, Mont and Luke are in the Netherlands for a conference
Oct 25	Geometric Methods	Andrew E	Geometric Methods
Nov 1		Evan
Nov 8		Derek
Nov 15	Defrosting your digital library: A hands on introduction to Mendeley software for organizing and sharing articles	Luke & Carl	Slides
Nov 22	Bowling Ball Dynamics	Andrew K	Slides Frohlich (2004). What makes bowling balls hook
Nov 29	Canceled
Dec 6	Discuss over under throwing paper and then bowling at the MU!	Mont

Spring 2010

Date	Presentation Title	Presenter	Links, Slides, Documents, etc
Apr 2	Final Presentation	Danique
Apr 9	Heavy Construction Made Weightless- Building the International Space Station	Steve Robinson	Dean's Lecture Series
Apr 14	R: a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics	Jason	How to get started with R
Apr 21	Australian Institute of Sports	Ian Blanchonette	http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/
Apr 28	OpenGL	Luke	http://github.com/hazelnusse/Rolling-Torus
May 5	Tethered Space Systems	Evan
May 12	MEMS Rate Gyro Calibration	Gilbert
May 19	The 2010 Olympic Luge Accident	Mont
May 26	Broader Impacts	Jake	Broader impacts project talk and YouTube videos
June 2		Andrew
June 9	Passive Dynamic Walking and the Newton-Rhapson Method	Thomas	matlab files

Winter 2010

Date	Presentation Title	Presenter	Links, Slides, Documents, etc
Jan 8	Bicycle physical parameter measurement	Jason	paper
Jan 15	Introduction presentation	Danique
Jan 22	Sliding mode control, robustness	Adam	SMC Presentation.pdf
Jan 29	Update on equine racetrack surface testing	Jake	Videos presented on my webpage
Feb 5	Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics	Andrew	Presentation
Feb 12	Basketball Stick Friction	Hiroki Okubo
Feb 19	Canceled
Feb 26	Jumper kinematics on terrain park jumps	Mont
Mar 5	Qt, Qt Designer and PyQt	Danique	Qt, PyQt
Mar 12	Bicycle science exhibits at the California Bicycle Museum	Matt Dulcich	Bicycle History Paper
Mar 19	No meeting - Finals week
Mar 26	No meeting - Spring Break

Fall 2009

Date	Presentation Title	Presenter	Links, Slides, Documents, etc
Nov 6	Reference management, Bibtex, Jabref	Luke	Jabref, Lyx
Nov 13	Sports Bio Website, Web content management and Plone	Jason	Web Content Management
Nov 20	Visualization of dynamic systems in OpenGL	Evan	Links & info
Dec 4	Steady Turning Motions of a Bicycle	Luke	paper
Dec 11	Searching for documents in the Mechanical Engineering Field	Bob Heyer-Gray	notes

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