Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation

Badminton is a sport that combines several different physical aspects. At a professional level, the sport demands excellent fitness criteria namely the player's aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed as well as precision. This study fundamentally entails the development of an innovative trai...

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Main Authors: Zahari, Taha, Mohammad Syawaludin, Syafiq Hassan, Hwa, Jen Yap, Wee, Kian Yeo
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Mohammad Syawaludin, Syafiq Hassan
Hwa, Jen Yap
Wee, Kian Yeo
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description Badminton is a sport that combines several different physical aspects. At a professional level, the sport demands excellent fitness criteria namely the player's aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed as well as precision. This study fundamentally entails the development of an innovative training system that incorporates technology that could improve the athlete's performance. Although existing motion tracking technology can provide reliable and accurate tracking results, nonetheless, the product cost and complexity keeps them away from being employed in most sports. This investigation involves the comparison between Kinect Technology and inertial measurement unit (IMU). The kinematic movement of the arm from wrist until shoulder was observed in this study for the purpose of investigating the difference between the acceleration of skeleton detected by the Kinect motion tracking and a low-cost IMU. The results obtained were found to be promising, and it is important in enabling pattern recognition of different badminton strokes in the next stage of the study. The movement of the right-hand wrist is tracked by Microsoft Kinect that can track the skeleton of the player whilst the IMU that measures the acceleration is attached at the right-hand wrist. Although the acceleration of the wrist may readily be obtained from the IMU, the acceleration from Kinect may only be obtained through mathematical manipulation. It was found that the accelerations of the upper limb movement from both IMU and Kinect demonstrated good agreement.
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spelling ump-137112018-01-22T04:03:48Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/13711/ Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation Zahari, Taha Mohammad Syawaludin, Syafiq Hassan Hwa, Jen Yap Wee, Kian Yeo TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery TS Manufactures Badminton is a sport that combines several different physical aspects. At a professional level, the sport demands excellent fitness criteria namely the player's aerobic stamina, agility, strength, speed as well as precision. This study fundamentally entails the development of an innovative training system that incorporates technology that could improve the athlete's performance. Although existing motion tracking technology can provide reliable and accurate tracking results, nonetheless, the product cost and complexity keeps them away from being employed in most sports. This investigation involves the comparison between Kinect Technology and inertial measurement unit (IMU). The kinematic movement of the arm from wrist until shoulder was observed in this study for the purpose of investigating the difference between the acceleration of skeleton detected by the Kinect motion tracking and a low-cost IMU. The results obtained were found to be promising, and it is important in enabling pattern recognition of different badminton strokes in the next stage of the study. The movement of the right-hand wrist is tracked by Microsoft Kinect that can track the skeleton of the player whilst the IMU that measures the acceleration is attached at the right-hand wrist. Although the acceleration of the wrist may readily be obtained from the IMU, the acceleration from Kinect may only be obtained through mathematical manipulation. It was found that the accelerations of the upper limb movement from both IMU and Kinect demonstrated good agreement. Elsevier Ltd 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/13711/1/Preliminary%20Investigation%20of%20an%20Innovative%20Digital%20Motion%20Analysis%20Device%20for%20Badminton%20Athlete%20Performance%20Evaluation.pdf Zahari, Taha and Mohammad Syawaludin, Syafiq Hassan and Hwa, Jen Yap and Wee, Kian Yeo (2016) Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation. Procedia Engineering, 147. pp. 461-465. ISSN 1877-7058. (Published) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.341 DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.341
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TS Manufactures
Zahari, Taha
Mohammad Syawaludin, Syafiq Hassan
Hwa, Jen Yap
Wee, Kian Yeo
Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation
title Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation
title_full Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation
title_fullStr Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation
title_full_unstemmed Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation
title_short Preliminary Investigation of an Innovative Digital Motion Analysis Device for Badminton Athlete Performance Evaluation
title_sort preliminary investigation of an innovative digital motion analysis device for badminton athlete performance evaluation
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
TS Manufactures
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/13711/
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