Real-Time Performance Coaching via Binary Visual Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current performance monitoring and coaching systems in sports and motor vehicle racing lack real-time feedback and are complex and expensive to implement, making it difficult to provide effective guidance for improving performance.
Innovation Solution
A system using sensors to measure performance criteria, generating pseudo-measurement values, and comparing them to maximum values to provide a fractional score, displayed in a binary format for real-time coaching, allowing athletes to understand their performance relative to achievable limits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If special equipment is installed in the vehicle for tracking various parameters, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a single camera to perform multiple functions: capturing images, detecting driver position, determining vehicle orientation, and tracking performance parameters. This multi-functional approach achieves precise measurement without requiring multiple specialized sensors or complex equipment installation.
2Measurement precision
If complex tracking systems are used to monitor performance parameters, then measurement precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides real-time visual feedback by displaying the driver's actual position and orientation alongside the ideal trajectory on a screen. This immediate feedback allows drivers to self-correct their performance without requiring complex data interpretation, making the system easy to operate while maintaining high measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a visual copy or representation of the ideal driving trajectory and compares it with the actual driver position. This visual copying approach simplifies data interpretation by presenting performance information in an intuitive graphical format rather than complex numerical data.
3Loss of information
If real-time feedback is provided through multiple channels, then information completeness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The single camera system performs multiple measurement functions simultaneously, providing comprehensive feedback information without requiring multiple specialized sensors. This universal approach maintains information completeness while minimizing device complexity.
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AI summary
An apparatus for coaching improvements for a performer during a performance activity based on observed actual performance in comparison to a possible performance, with sensors measuring performance criteria. A microprocessor computer creates respective pseudo-measurements relevant to the performance activity based on the measurements, which are normalized and evaluated as to proximity to a possible performance value. A display presents the measured actual performance in relation to the possible performance, so the performer may change actions and observe on the display the effect of the change. A method of coaching performer during a performance activity is disclosed.