A simple tridimensional processing of acceleration measurements for dynamic movements monitoring of sportsmen

Abstract

Measuring, monitoring and analysis of dynamic movements in sports is becoming more important than ever. Many methods used currently may only be applied in the artificial environment of a laboratory. Other methods require too much processing to be used during a real-time competition. To overcome these difficulties acceleration measurements and a simple method to process them have been proposed. Data processing is based on search and recognition of the characteristic points in the tridimensional representation of acceleration measurements. Three different dynamic movements have been measured: run, jump and punch. The presented results show that the measurements of acceleration and proposed processing may be used to extract movement parameters of a sportsman and monitor the level of his tiredness