Rowing optimisation

Author

Cirmirakis, D. ; Pollard, J.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

21-23 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

159

Lastpage

161

Abstract

A novel, patented, mechanical rowing force sensor has been simulated, constructed and tested. The sensor was set in a modified oarlock together with electronic processing including a Bluetooth transmitter. A Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephone/ laptop with a Graphical User Interface written in Java was used to display the 2-dimensional force on an oar vs. time. The visual display to a coach of rowing effort enabled skills to be optimized for maximum velocity of a rowing shell. This has been tested in practice and is creating interest amongst professional rowing coaches.

Keywords

Bluetooth; Java; force sensors; graphical user interfaces; laptop computers; mobile handsets; radio transmitters; sport; Bluetooth transmitter; Java; electronic processing; graphical user interface; laptop; mechanical rowing force sensor; mobile telephone; oarlock; professional rowing coaches; rowing optimisation; visual display; Bluetooth; Displays; Force sensors; Graphical user interfaces; Java; Mechanical sensors; Portable computers; Telephony; Testing; Transmitters; Bluetooth; Force sensor; mobile telephone; sport electronics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications, 2009. IDAACS 2009. IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Rende

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4901-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4882-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IDAACS.2009.5343005

Filename

5343005