Learning Bicycle Stunts

Students: 
Jie Tan

We present a general approach to simulate and control a human character riding a bicycle. The rider not only learns to steer and to balance in normal riding situations but also learns to perform a wide variety of stunts, including wheelie, endo, bunny hop, front wheel pivot and back hop.

Lab: 
Faculty: 
Greg Turk, Karen Liu, Jarek Rossignac, Irfan Essa, Jim Rehg, Blair MacIntyre

The Graphics Lab is dedicated to research in all aspects of computer graphics, including animation, modeling, rendering, image and video manipulation and augmented reality.