Tyler C. Folsom of University of Washington

Abstract: We are facing a transportation revolution, driven by vehicle automation, vehicle electrification, mobility as a service, and concern for global warming. Micromobilty (scooters, electric bikes, electric skateboards, etc.) present further disruption. Dr. Folsom runs the Elcano Project, which provides an open-source system designed to automate an electric tricycle or other vehicle. When an e-trike is equipped with a body for weather protection, it can join automated city transportation as a single occupancy vehicle that uses 45 times less energy than a car.

Biography:

Tyler C. Folsom, PhD, PE (ze, hir, hirs) Affiliate Professor in School of STEM, University of Washington, Bothell and Director of the Elcano Project.

Ze has worked on engineering R&D projects at Quest Integrated and participated in the DARPA Grand Challenge races for autonomous vehicles. Ze has taught robotics, artificial intelligence, machine vision, embedded systems, autonomous vehicles and digital electronics. Ze is an avid bicyclist and promotes using autonomous cycles to build a transportation system that uses 30 times less energy than cars at the same speed. Tyler received a BS in Mathematics from Villanova University, MA in Math from University of Maryland and MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington.

Links:

https://425business.com/pedal-less-power/

https://kcts9.org/programs/reinventors/self-driving-bikes-seattle-s-next-transit-revolution

http://www.elcanoproject.org/

http://www.elcanoproject.org/documents/sustech2017_tfolsom.pdf

Email:

Address:19128 112th Ave NE, Suite 102, , Bothell, Washington, United States, 98011