Real-time Evaluation System for Top Taekwondo Athletes: Project Overview

Pedro Cunha, Pedro Cunha, Paulo Barbosa, Fábio Ferreira, Carlos Fitas, Vítor Carvalho, Vítor Carvalho, Filomena Soares

2021

Abstract

Assessing athletes' performance is a constant challenge for coaches, whatever the sport is. In some sports there are no technological solutions to assist coaches in this task. This is the case of Taekwondo, where currently the methods used are mainly manual. Following this trend, this article presents the work developed in a PhD project whose main objective is the development of a friendly and low-cost system for assessing the performance of Taekwondo athletes in real time. Thus, the system uses a 3D camera with depth sensor (Orbbec Astra), a computer and software developed for data collection and processing. The system also provides the inclusion of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). The system allows an accurate feedback for the correction or improvement of the athlete's techniques, enabling an increase in the athlete's performance in a shorter period of time. In all, the project contributes to the evolution of the techniques used during Taekwondo training, as well as to the technological development in the practice of Taekwondo.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cunha P., Barbosa P., Ferreira F., Fitas C., Carvalho V. and Soares F. (2021). Real-time Evaluation System for Top Taekwondo Athletes: Project Overview. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES; ISBN 978-989-758-490-9, SciTePress, pages 209-216. DOI: 10.5220/0010414200002865

in Bibtex Style

@conference{biodevices21,
author={Pedro Cunha and Paulo Barbosa and Fábio Ferreira and Carlos Fitas and Vítor Carvalho and Filomena Soares},
title={Real-time Evaluation System for Top Taekwondo Athletes: Project Overview},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES},
year={2021},
pages={209-216},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010414200002865},
isbn={978-989-758-490-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2021) - Volume 1: BIODEVICES
TI - Real-time Evaluation System for Top Taekwondo Athletes: Project Overview
SN - 978-989-758-490-9
AU - Cunha P.
AU - Barbosa P.
AU - Ferreira F.
AU - Fitas C.
AU - Carvalho V.
AU - Soares F.
PY - 2021
SP - 209
EP - 216
DO - 10.5220/0010414200002865
PB - SciTePress