ENS6126 Master of Engineering Project 1 Proposal and Risk Assessment Report Wearable technologies for sports science Narinder Singh Student # 10361447 31 Mar 2017 Supervisor: Dr Iftekhar Ahmad Ethics Declaration Checklist (to be completed by student) Does this project involve the use of: YES/NO (a) Human participants, NO (b) Previously collected confidential data, NO (c) Animals for scientific purposes? NO If ‘YES’ to any of the above, then the proposal will not be approved and you will not be allowed to proceed with this project. By submitting this report through the unit website for assessment, you certify that the information provided above is true and correct.   Abstract The development of new technology is very important in this modern era which is continues to transform many aspects of our lives. The sports are very important for everyone to become fit and active so, there is need of advancement in materials and equipment use in sports. These days the athletes use sensors for practice and performance in sport. With the use of sensors, the trainer will judge the performance of the player and then they easily teach them to perform better. The sensor technologies have been implement in many sports to provide a wide range of information such as, biomechanical information in running and check the use of energy. [1] Nowadays, the commonly use sensors in sports are for heart rate monitors and pedometer, digital cameras, body-worn sensors and mobile computers helps sport psychologists interact with players. Technology in the sport motivated the people in adhering to a healthy exercise routine. The technology also helps to track the athlete position, movement, displacement and velocity by using the global positioning system (GPS) and accelerometer which record the player’s activities during the day. In this project report the Arduino is used with ZigBee to tracking the moving object by the ping ultrasonic sensors. [2] 1. Introduction 1.1. Motivation This project is full of technical knowledge and also contain the engineering practical skills. The major problem in sports these day is player’s injuries which continue to be an undeniable setback for athletes as well for organizations at any level. The motivation for making this project is providing a new technology to sports science to make sports more safe and players increase their performance This system helps the coaches and trainers to judge the speed and movement of athletes and their physical respond at different levels during the play. [3] 1.2. Objectives The main objective of this project is to find an object position on coordinate axis using two ultrasonic sensors and track the speed and distance of the particular object between the transmitter and receiver. Sound waves are used as transmitters. The other main goal to make this project is to detect main cause of the injury to a player during the game so that coaches will teach the player better next time to avoid these injuries. The detail study of the project is necessary to design the proper working of the project. The following are the main steps which are requires to complete the project … 1. Research and study about the different equipment’s and components required to complete this project. 2. Then investigate the main target where this project is implicated and helpful. 3. Research for the different technologies which was used to detect the same problems and check their drawbacks. [4] 1.3. Significance The aim to develop this project is increase the demand in the sports science there are huge areas where this project helps to get out from the problems. The trainers will be crafting the skills of the sportsman by tracking their movements and tech them to perform best of their abilities. This project is also use as security propose like to detect any device which enter in the area of the ultrasonic sensors and to check their movements in different directions. [5] 2. Proposed Approach There are many methods which are used to improve the technology in sports science after study many technologies we try to avoid the drawbacks in our project to tracking the object using ping ultrasonic sensors. The components which are used in the project are selected and after check all components when they are ready to use implemented these on breadboard and check the project working. [6] The four ping ultrasonic sensors are used to track the moving objects which send high frequency sound waves to check the distance of the object from the transmitter end. Components list 1. Ping ultrasonic sensors 2. Breadboard 3. Arduino 4. ZigBee 5. Servo motors 6. EMG (Electromyography) The ultrasonic sensor is sit on servo motor that moves in a 90 span. After tracking the object, the servo motor stop moving and the sensor calculated the distance from the object. [7] 3. Timeline Two students are working on this project and done equal work. The project will be completed in one year. All the time mandatory for doing the different tasks is explained as from the project start to the project completed is shown in the Gantt chart. The research and selection of components would be done in semester one and hardware will be completed in semester two. The progress report and poster presentation will be going parallel to the research work. 4. Risk Assessment The project is based on both hardware and software and will take lot of time so there are some risks which are shown in the risk assessments attached at the end of this proposal. The risk assessments as follow; 1. Work for long time 2. Sickness 3. PC stop working 4. Communication gap between student and supervisor 5. Error in required software There are some health risks due to working on project for long time which effect the speed of doing work on project. which will be easily solve by giving the short breaks after some time. Moreover, there will be somebody sickness like headache which will be remove by taking the medical treatment. Apart from this there will be problem in pc which will be overcome by change the pc. [8] 5. Progress to Date Till now I have done the research work about the project and gather project based material to make my report and select the components. The design is also selected to complete the project and I already order the selected components. After receiving the selected components, I will start checking the components. The software part which will be used in the project is also selected. 6. Conclusion The wearable technologies described in this report has been studied throughout the semester. During the study the point that had been discovered is that wearable technologies will be a great boom in the sports science field and related sectors. The components which will be used in the project has been decided which will be used in the next semester to do the experimental part of the project. This technology will include sensors and screen monitors to observe the whole experiment in the future to get the results. 7. References 1. Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Masateru Minami and Takuichi Nishimura, "Implementation of indoor location and orientation estimation system using ultrasonic and radio," SICE Annual Conference 2007, Takamatsu, 2007, pp. 2468-2472. 2. file:///F:/proposal/Sport_Technology_Behavior.pdf 3. L. Mertz, "Technology Comes to the Playing Field: New World of Sports Promises Fewer Injuries, Better Performance," in IEEE Pulse, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 12-17, Sept. 2013. doi: 10.1109/MPUL.2013.2271683 4. T. Hamatani, Y. Sakaguchi, A. Uchiyama and T. Higashino, "Player identification by motion features in sport videos using wearable sensors," 2016 Ninth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), Kaiserslautern, 2016, pp. 1-6. 5. Appelboom, G., Camacho, E., Abraham, M. E., Bruce, S. S., Dumont, E. L., Zacharia, B. E., ... & Connolly, E. S. (2014). Smart wearable body sensors for patient self-assessment and monitoring. Archives of Public Health, 72(1), 28. 6. http://engineering.nyu.edu/mechatronics/summit/SUMMIT2007/group6-Will_Bill/Summit2007Project.pdf 7. Carullo, A., & Parvis, M. (2001). An ultrasonic sensor for distance measurement in automotive applications. IEEE Sensors journal, 1(2), 143-147. 8. Hoogendoorn, W. E., van Poppel, M. N., Bongers, P. M., Koes, B. W., & Bouter, L. M. (1999). Physical load during work and leisure time as risk factors for back pain. Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 387-403. Attachment 1 – Timeline Chart   Attachment 2 – Risk Assessment Matrix Risk Reference Risks Consequences Current Risk Treatments Current Level of Risk Additional Risk Treatments Residual Level of Risk Likelihood Consequence Risk Level Ranking Likelihood Consequence Risk Level Ranking 1 Work for long time This effect on the project making speed and also start the neck and back pain Make a proper timetable for work and take a short break after every hour. 3 3 3 m NONE 3 2 3 L 2 Sickness Results in the delay of project work . Try to spend more time to do project work from home . 3 1 2 L Medical treatment 3 4 5 M 3 PC stop working Effect the speed of project work Arrange another computer to complete work and always save work after some time . 1 2 1 L Repair your PC 1 2 1 L 4 Communication gap between student and supervisor Due to different country and culture By attending more meetings with supervisor 3 3 3 M Show your work time to time to supervisor 3 3 3 M 5 Error in required software Delay in work Download new software 2 2 1 L Not required 2 2 1 L Activity Overall Risk Rating 0.00 low