Adaptive Motor Resistance Exercise System with Remote Data Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer-controlled exercise systems lack real resistance and communication capabilities with remotely located secondary users, limiting their effectiveness in sharing data and providing adaptive training experiences.
Innovation Solution
A computer-assisted exercise equipment system equipped with an electric motor that provides physical resistance and assistive forces, integrated with sensors and controllers to adapt resistance profiles in real-time based on user input and performance data, allowing communication with secondary users such as trainers or competitors, and optionally used in conjunction with gaming systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If computer-controlled exercise systems are used, then exercise control and monitoring are improved, but real resistance capability and remote communication are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges computer-controlled automation with real mechanical resistance by integrating an electric motor that can both provide assisted force and generate real resistance through a braking mechanism. The system combines electronic monitoring and control with physical resistance training capabilities, allowing the exercise machine to offer both automated exercise guidance and genuine mechanical resistance for strength training.
Solution Approach 2:
The exercise system is designed with multi-functionality to serve multiple purposes: it can provide automated exercise control and monitoring, generate real mechanical resistance for strength training, communicate with remote secondary users via network connections, and even integrate with gaming systems. This universal design allows a single system to address multiple needs that were previously handled by separate devices.
2Device complexity
If exercise systems lack remote communication capabilities, then device simplicity is maintained, but effectiveness in sharing data with secondary users is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network communication interface as an intermediary component that enables data exchange between the exercise system and remote secondary users without fundamentally altering the core exercise functionality. This intermediary allows the system to maintain its primary exercise capabilities while adding the ability to share performance data, receive instructions, and communicate with trainers or competitors through network connections.
3Device complexity
If static resistance is used in exercise machines, then device simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to user performance changes is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic resistance adjustment by using an electric motor with electronic control that can vary the resistance level in real-time based on user performance, exercise phase, and programmed parameters. The motor can adjust torque output during different portions of a repetition, providing progressive or regressive resistance patterns that adapt to the user's strength changes throughout the exercise range of motion.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the resistance parameter dynamically through electronic control of the motor, allowing the resistance level to vary based on multiple factors including exercise type, user performance data, and predetermined workout programs. This parameter adjustment capability enables the same physical machine to provide different resistance characteristics for different users and exercise phases without mechanical reconfiguration.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables enhanced exercise performance by providing adaptive resistance and assistive forces, facilitating remote monitoring and training, and integrating exercise data into video games, thus overcoming limitations of traditional systems by offering personalized and interactive training experiences.
Implementation Method 1
An electric motor is configured to supply a resistive force and/or assistive force to a user interface
Data Source
AI summary
The invention comprises a method and/or an apparatus using a computer configured exercise system equipped with an electric motor to provide physical resistance to user motion in conjunction with means for sharing exercise system related data and/or user performance data with a secondary user, such as a medical professional, a physical therapist, a trainer, a computer generated competitor, and/or a human competitor. For example, the exercise system is used with a remote trainer to enhance exercise performance, with a remote medical professional for rehabilitation, and/or with a competitor in a competition, such as in a power/weightlifting competition or in a video game. The exercise system is optionally configured with an intelligent software assistant and knowledge navigator functioning as a personal assistant application.