Implementation of Virtual-coach for Fitness Based on Multimedia Treadmill

• Main Author: 劉宗翰
• Other Authors: 黃文增
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86432264825214101684

碩士 === 明新科技大學 === 電機工程研究所 === 99 === Nowadays, the body-building has already been paid attention to. Since an indoor race-apparatus is free of weather and time, it is one of the fast-selling products. Based on the concept of the tele-virtual fitness coach, in this study, we implement an intelligent indoor race-apparatus called “Virtual fitness coach”, whose functions include the fitness procedure, monitor of bio-information, browse of various countries beautiful scenery, and listen dynamic music. Our virtual fitness coach can offer different fitness-grade intensity courses for suiting properly personal physical vigor such that it can not only get the effect of the body-building but also avoid the sport injury. Simultaneously, it can record the information, energy consumption, speed, race-apparatus slope, time, distance, date, and historical data, during the sport. Then, our system can transmit the heart rate and fatigue level to the control center by the wireless sensor network and monitor uses bio-information. In the case, it can remind user whether it is excessive sports and over fatigue level for safety reason. In order to improve the entertainments and practicality, our system employs the multimedia platform to offer the interactive street pictures of Google map that users can enjoy a trip to the scenery fond of oneself. Moreover, as cooperating with the dynamic sound, people can reach a point of forgetting me and entertainment results in body-building. Therefore, our virtual fitness coach will be one of the fitness and entertainment products.