AutoChung

Note: This post has been migrated from my old WanderTech blog.

I have posted ad-nauseum in the past about parameter estimation, conference papers, bike parameter .exes and noise like that. It’s finally starting to be pretty concrete.

There is now an overview of an early stage desktop application (maybe a webapp down the road) to estimate drag coefficient and coefficient of rolling resistance using the methodology I developed on top of the Chung method. I hope to make it pretty user friendly and painless, so at this point I am just trying to find new and exciting ways to break it before releasing it.

Next steps include:

• Automated unit conversion
• Pulling weather data from an API (looking for suggestions on historical weather data APIs that work well with Python)
• Support for additional file formats
• Simulating rider performance over a given course (from another GPS file)

The aim is to have an alpha version posted for people to use/test next week.

For more details about the parameter estimation tool itself, check out the Virtual Elevation project page.