The Bicycle and Motorcycle Dynamics Conference is held every three years. The first conference was held in Delft, Netherlands in 2010. The aim of this symposium is to bring together leading scientists and researchers in the field of bicycle and motorcycle dynamics and control, in a broad sense.
Topics include but are not limited to: bicycles, motorcycles, unicycles, single track vehicles, modeling, kinematics and dynamics, control, human control, rider properties, handling qualities, tires, experiments, aerodynamics, simulators, nonholonomic dynamics, robot riders, path following.
For an open sharing of information, the meeting is organized to provide as much interaction between participants as possible. The format is informal and fluid, with a single track of presentations and extensive time scheduled for interaction, and the forming and sharing of ideas.
BMD 2026 will be held in Hamamatsu, Japan with Tomoya Kitani at Shizuoka University as the organizer. More info will be posted in the coming months.
A scientific committee is selected for each conference. Past scientific committee members are:
- Alberto Doria, University of Padua, Italy
- Alejandra Polanco, University Gustave Eiffel
- Alessandro Beghi, University of Padova, Italy
- Alka Gupta, Harley Davidson
- Andrew Dressel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- Andy Ruina, Cornell University, USA
- Arend Schwab, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Arno Stienen, Delft University of Technology
- Atanas Popov, University of Nottingham, UK
- David Limebeer, University of Oxford, UK
- Eric Maris, Radboud University
- Gianpiero Mastinu, Polytechnic University of Milan
- Giulio Rosati, University of Padova, Italy
- Hermann Winner, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Hidekazu Nishimura, Keio University, Japan
- Ichiro Kageyama, Nihon University, Japan
- Jaap Meijaard, Olton Engineering, The Netherlands
- James Sadauckas, Trek Bicycle Corporation, USA
- Jason K. Moore, University of California Davis, USA
- Jay Maas, Trek Bicycle Corporation, USA
- Jim Brendelson, Cycle Scientific LLC, USA
- Jim Papadopoulos, Northeastern University, USA
- Jodi Kooijman, Swugo B.V.
- Jürgen Wrede, Pforzheim University
- Linda van der Spaa, Delft University of Technology
- Luis Muñoz, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- Manfred Plöchl, Technische Universitat Wien, Austria
- Marco Dozza, Chalmers University of Technology
- Marco Pezzola, MUNER, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
- Marco Pierini, University of Florence, Italy
- Matteo Corno, Polytechnic University of Milan
- Matteo Massaro, University of Padova, Italy
- Mattia Bruschetta, University of Padua
- Michael Taylor, Harley Davidson
- Mio Suzuki, Trek Bicycle Corporation, USA
- Mont Hubbard, University of California Davis, USA
- Nicolay Ruffo, VI-grade Srl
- Riender Happee, Delft University of Technology
- Roberto Lot, University of Padua, UK
- Sam Brockie, Delft University of Technology
- Sergio Savaresi, Politechnico di Milano, Italy
- Simos Evangelou, Imperial College London, UK
- Siri Berge, Delft University of Technology
- Stephen Cain, West Virginia University
- Tomoya Kitani, Shizuoka University
- Tsuyoshi Katayama, Kurume Institute of Technology, Japan