Bucking Bronco: Adaptive Ride Experiment No. 1

This video presents an early experiment into the construction of amusement park rides which adapt themselves to those who are riding them. In this experiment, an actor is fitted with a set of sensors, and mounts a Bucking Bronco, a popular small-scale fairground ride. Information from these sensors is relayed live to a member of the public who operates the ride based on sensor data alone. Future experiments will remove the human operator and replace them with an automated control system. This early experiment has explored the possibility of running the ride based on sensor data and potential strategies which may be applied when automating this process.