Cycling Exercise System Route Selection and Gear Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cyclists face challenges in finding safe, scenic, and suitable cycling routes, and often struggle with optimizing their bicycle's gears, leading to inefficiencies and deterrence from exploring their area.
Innovation Solution
A cycling exercise system that includes a device and server capable of selecting and guiding users through predetermined cycling courses, providing exercise instructions and motivations, using GPS and data bus connectivity, with features like course databases, processors, and input/output components to manage route selection and gear optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cyclists discover their own routes, then they can find personalized cycling paths, but it takes time and energy and may lead to dangerous situations
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes multiple cycling routes with varying characteristics (scenic, safe, challenging, short, long) and stores them in a database. Users can select from these pre-planned routes without needing to discover them independently, thus saving time and energy while still providing personalized options based on user preferences and skill level.
2Adaptability or versatility
If cyclists discover their own routes, then they can find suitable paths, but it may lead to dangerous situations on high traffic roads
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates safety assessments for each pre-planned route, evaluating factors such as traffic volume, road type, and protection levels. Users receive feedback about the safety characteristics of each route option, allowing them to make informed decisions. The system can also provide real-time guidance to keep cyclists on safe, designated paths.
3Productivity
If cyclists optimize gear use, then they can improve cycling efficiency, but it requires knowledge and practice that inexperienced cyclists lack
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically monitors cycling conditions (terrain, speed, cadence) and provides real-time gear selection recommendations without requiring the cyclist to have expert knowledge. The system essentially serves itself by using sensor data to determine optimal gear choices and communicating these to the user, making gear optimization accessible to cyclists of all experience levels.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If predetermined routes are provided, then cyclists can avoid dangerous roads, but the number of available routes is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates a multi-functional route database where each route is tagged with multiple characteristics (safety level, scenic value, difficulty, length, terrain type). This allows the same set of pre-planned routes to serve multiple user needs and preferences. Users can filter and select routes based on any combination of criteria, effectively expanding the variety of available options without requiring separate routes for each possibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A cycling exercise system includes: a bicycle, a server which includes a plurality of predetermined cycling course representations, and a device, including a processor, memory, input/output, and exercise controller, which enables the user to select a cycling course representation from the plurality of predetermined cycling course representations, such that the cycling exercise device directs the user along the selected cycling course representation and provides exercise instructions specific to course segments. Also disclosed is a method for cycling exercise, including: calculating available courses, selecting course, directing cyclist to course, and directing cyclist around course.