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37 Tennis Swing Analyzer
Guo-Cheng Lo
Heting Gao
Yihong Liu
Amr Martini design_document0.pdf
final_paper0.pdf
presentation0.pdf
proposal0.pdf
Yihong Liu (yliu287)

Guo-Cheng Lo (glo2)

Heting Gao (hgao17)

When playing tennis, it is important not only to hit the ball properly but also to prevent performing non-standard swings. A badly performed swing might not result in a weak stroke so it is sometimes hard for a tennis beginner to notice it. However, once players keep using the bad swing, over time these swing could accumulate harm to their body. It is for this reason that our design does not involve actually hitting a tennis ball since our focus is more on non-standard swing correction than on a good stroke detection. For our senior design project, we plan to build a tennis swing analyzer that is able to help tennis beginner to notice their non-standard swings and correct their swing in time.

We want build a tennis racket swinging tracker that can analyze and determine if a swing is a good one for tennis beginners. We plan to have three accelerometers sensors, one on the wrist and two on the racket with each powered separately, to get acceleration data of each swing. The data are then processed by a microcontroller and transmit these data to personal computer via Bluetooth devices. We plan to take several standard swings and non-standard swings, collect their acceleration data and label them standard or non-standard respectively. A classifier would be trained on these data to determine whether the swing is a good swing. When the user practice swinging, new swinging data is transmitted and classified by computer. The computer would send the result back to a speaker on the racket the could inform the user in real time.

Link to Web board Post:
https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/pace/view-topic.asp?id=27437

Prosthetic Control Board

Caleb Albers, Daniel Lee

Prosthetic Control Board

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Psyonic is a local start-up that has been working on a prosthetic arm with an impressive set of features as well as being affordable. The current iteration of the main hand board is functional, but has limitations in computational power as well as scalability. In lieu of this, Psyonic wishes to switch to a production-ready chip that is an improvement on the current micro controller by utilizing a more modern architecture. During this change a few new features would be added that would improve safety, allow for easier debugging, and fix some issues present in the current implementation. The board is also slated to communicate with several other boards found in the hand. Additionally we are looking at the possibility of improving the longevity of the product with methods such as conformal coating and potting.

Core Functionality:

Replace microcontroller, change connectors, and code software to send control signals to the motor drivers

Tier 1 functions:

Add additional communication interfaces (I2C), and add temperature sensor.

Tier 2 functions:

Setup framework for communication between other boards, and improve board longevity.

Overview of proposed changes by affected area:

Microcontroller/Architecture Change:

Teensy -> Production-ready chip (most likely ARM based, i.e. STM32 family of processors)

Board:

support new microcontroller, adding additional communication interfaces (I2C), change to more robust connector. (will need to design pcb for both main control as well as finger sensors)

Sensor:

Addition of a temperature sensor to provide temperature feedback to the microcontroller.

Software:

change from Arduino IDE to new toolchain. (ARM has various base libraries such as mbed and can be configured for use with eclipse to act as IDE) Lay out framework to allow communication from other boards found in other parts of the arm.