Wearable sensors in Water Sports: potentials and challenges

ABSTRACT

Performance assessment in swimming is commonly performed using video analysis. This technique allows to quantify several indices that are required by coaches such as swimmer’s posture, symmetry, joint angles, progression velocity. However, this procedure is often hindered by the very difficult measurement conditions. The advent of MEMS technology gave a great impulse in using wearable inertial sensors to overcome the above limitation, opening to the progressive adoption of wearables in swimming research and periodical technical monitoring. The seminar will analyze the state of the art about the use of wearables in swimming research, specifically highlighting potentials and technical challenges in sports performance assessment of water sports technique. Furthermore, real-time data processing of inertial sensors data acquired during water sport motor tasks will be performed. A typical signal processing flow, from data plotting, pre-processing to key performance indicators extraction will be presented within the Matlab® environment, with the aim of highlighting the crucial aspects that must be considered throughout inertial sensors data processing.

SCHEDULE

15th May

• 10am - 12pm
• 1pm - 3 pm

This course is part of the training provided for IBES PhD Students in the academic year 2023/2024.

Those who succesfully attend and complete the course:

• are eligible for max. 1 credit if they are enrolled in cycle 37;
• gain 4 attendance hours of the IBES training for the Bioengineering (BIO) curriculum if they are enrolled in cycle 38 and 39.

Check the links above for further information about the specific academic requirements for each cyle and how to comply with them.