Smart Sensors and Smart Fit: Analysis of Ice Hockey Equipment and Player Performance

智能传感器和智能贴合：冰球装备和球员表现分析

• 批准号: 533794-2018
• 负责人: Pearsall, David
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: McGill University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Development Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=698458
• 关键词: Smart; Sensors; Fit; Analysis; Ice

Bauer Hockey Ltd. (Bauer) in partnership with researchers at McGill University's Ice Hockey Research Group (IHRG) propose a series of studies to develop Smart Sensors to be worn by players and/or incorporated within ice hockey equipment to identify players' optimal performance metrics and Smart Fit technologies to optimize and customize helmets to individual head shape anthropometrics. This ambitious five-year collaborative proposal will provide unique performance measurement tools to Bauer to augment their products' design, material and manufacturing properties for optimal function as well as to offer coaches and athletes in the ice hockey community to enhance training. Specifically, our goals are to explore the feasibility and accuracy of using real-time Smart Sensor technologies to track players' body and equipment's function mechanics for ice hockey skating, stick and contact skills, as well as, further develop Smart Fit tools to assess optimal head-to-helmet interface. These studies will provide meaningful user / product specific information needed by Bauer's R&D in Canada to improve their company's competitive market edge, contribute to on-field and off-field sports analytic goods research, as well as generate accessible, real-time tools and knowledge to enhance athlete training, skill development and injury risk reduction. HQP will work closely with Bauer R&D on specific projects (from project concept inception, prototype sensor designs, fabrication, programing data storage, retrieval, analysis, reporting, field testing, as well as research designs to obtain users' performance measure norms and distributions). The research plan will align graduate students' thesis residency with a series of projects distributed over a 5 year period.

鲍尔曲棍球有限公司(Bauer)与麦吉尔大学冰球研究组(IHRG)的研究人员合作，提出了一系列研究，以开发可供运动员佩戴和/或集成到冰球设备中的智能传感器，以确定运动员的最佳表现指标，并采用Smart Fit技术来根据个人头部形状人体测量来优化和定制头盔。这项雄心勃勃的五年合作计划将为鲍尔提供独特的性能衡量工具，以增强其产品的设计、材料和制造性能，以实现最佳功能，并为冰球界的教练和运动员提供加强训练的机会。 具体地说，我们的目标是探索使用实时智能传感器技术来跟踪冰球运动员身体和设备的功能力学的可行性和准确性，以及进一步开发Smart Fit工具来评估最佳的头到头盔接口。这些研究将提供鲍尔加拿大研发所需的有意义的用户/产品特定信息，以提高公司的竞争市场优势，为场内和场外体育分析产品研究做出贡献，并产生可访问的实时工具和知识，以加强运动员训练、技能发展和降低受伤风险。 HQP将在特定项目(从项目概念开始、原型传感器设计、制造、编程数据存储、检索、分析、报告、现场测试以及研究设计，以获得用户的性能测量规范和分布)上与鲍尔研发部门密切合作。研究计划将使研究生的论文实习与一系列分配在5年内的项目保持一致。