The impact of bob-skeleton sled dynamics on steering performance

性能体育工程实验室已经有了10年的合作伙伴关系，支持英国骷髅队。我们是帮助赢得5枚奖牌的团队的一部分，其中包括在冬季奥运会上连续3枚金牌[艾米威廉姆斯（2010）和莉兹·雅诺德（2014，2018）]。一系列的工程师和博士生的研究已经逐步允许一个大大提高了对基础科学的理解，使运动员和雪橇的组合，以尽快下降的轨道。仍然存在一个重要的问题，即如何最好地设计雪橇及其滑行器，使得运动员滑动可以最大化他们对雪橇轨迹的控制。运动员与冰面接触的动态相互作用、咬入冰面的有限边缘的设计、滑动器激活的雪橇的变形以及他们的反应时间和训练都发挥了作用。该项目将建立在研究团队在精英运动中实现成绩提高的专业知识基础上了解人在回路动态试验环境（汤顿）;先进控制工程（罗杰斯）;和冰物理学（Symmonds）可以用于允许首次开发轨道下降的自由运行的人类激活模拟。已经取得了重大进展，该项目将集中精力利用已经获得的理解，但在虚拟现实环境的背景下，捕捉基本的物理，人为因素和整个系统模型。

The Performance Sports Engineering Laboratory has had a 10 year partnership supporting the British Skeleton team. We have been part of the team that helped win 5 medals, including 3 successive gold medals at the winter Olympics [Amy Williams(2010) and Lizzy Yarnold(2014, 2018)]. A series of EngD and PhD student's research has progressively allowed a greatly enhanced understanding of the fundamental science that allows the combination of athlete and sled to descend a track as rapidly as possible. There is still a significant question of how best to design the sled and its runner such that the athlete sliding can maximise their control of the sled trajectory. The dynamic interaction of the runner contact with the ice, design of the limited edges that bite into the ice, the distortion of the sled activated by the slider and their reaction time and training all play a part.The project will build on the expertise of the research team in achieving performance gains in elite sport (Turnock,Banks); understanding of how human-in-the-loop dynamic test environments (Taunton); advanced control engineering (Rogers); and ice physics (Symmonds) can be used to allow the development of a free-running human activated simulation of a track descent for the first time. Significant developments have already taken place and this project will concentrate on exploiting the understanding already gained but within the context of a virtual reality environment that captures the essential physics, human factors and a whole system model.