AI Engine for Dynamic Resistance Adjustment in Interval Training

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing exercise machines lack the ability to dynamically adjust resistance and provide personalized feedback to users during interval training, leading to suboptimal workout experiences and reduced user engagement.

Innovation Solution

An artificial intelligence engine that uses machine learning models to receive sensor measurements from exercise devices and wearable devices, allowing for real-time adjustments to resistance levels and presentation of user interfaces that provide dynamic feedback and personalized exercise plans.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If exercise machines use fixed resistance levels, then device complexity is reduced, but user engagement and workout effectiveness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworkout personalizationVSAvoidresistance control system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically adjusts resistance levels based on sensor data and machine learning models without requiring manual user input or trainer intervention. The exercise machine self-regulates workout parameters by processing sensor measurements through AI algorithms to determine optimal resistance changes, enabling the device to serve itself in personalizing the workout experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user performance through sensors and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust resistance levels. Sensor data captured during exercise sessions feeds into machine learning models that predict optimal resistance adjustments, creating a closed-loop control system that adapts to user needs in real-time based on measured performance metrics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If real-time sensor monitoring and AI processing are implemented, then workout effectiveness is improved, but energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveworkout accuracyVSAvoidAI processing energy
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system processes sensor data at different levels of intensity based on workout phase and user needs. During steady-state intervals, processing may be reduced compared to high-intensity intervals where precise monitoring is critical. This selective processing approach maintains workout accuracy when needed while reducing energy consumption during less critical periods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

Machine learning models are trained offline using historical data before deployment, performing the computationally intensive model training in advance rather than during exercise sessions. During actual workouts, the pre-trained models make predictions with lower computational requirements, shifting energy-intensive processing to preparation phases when the user is not exercising.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If dynamic resistance adjustment is implemented, then user engagement is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresistance dynamicsVSAvoidcontrol simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically adjusts resistance levels based on sensor data and machine learning models without requiring manual user input or trainer intervention. The exercise machine self-regulates workout parameters by processing sensor measurements through AI algorithms to determine optimal resistance changes, enabling the device to serve itself in personalizing the workout experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20250099816A1Method and System for Using Artificial Intelligence to Determine a User's Progress During Interval Training
Publication Date: 2025.03.27 ROM TECH INC
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AI summary

A method is disclosed for using an artificial intelligence engine to perform a control action. The control action is based on one or more measurements from a wearable device. The method includes generating, by the artificial intelligence engine, a machine learning model trained to receive the one or more measurements as input, and outputting, based on the one or more measurements, a control instruction that causes the control action to be performed. The method includes receiving the one or more measurements from the wearable device being worn by a user, determining whether the one or more measurements indicate, during an interval training session, that one or more characteristics of the user are within a desired target zone, and responsive to determining that the one or more measurements indicate the one or more characteristics of the user are not within the desired target zone during the interval training session, performing the control action.