JP5731684B1 - The height measuring device and measuring system of "Oly", a skateboarding technique - Google Patents

Abstract

It is an object of the present invention to provide a system that can easily and accurately measure the height of skateboarding “Orly” on a portable terminal without having to prepare a third-party manpower or video camera as in the prior art. And It is also an object to provide a system that not only measures the height, but also displays a thing that can be jumped according to the measurement result, thereby further improving the user's skateboarding technology. To do. A new technology that makes it possible to easily and accurately measure the jump distance of a user by making full use of sensors such as a three-axis acceleration sensor and a distance measuring sensor and sharing the result with a portable terminal at hand. Height measurement system for "Oly", a skateboarding technique [selection figure] Fig. 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a measuring device and a measuring system for measuring an accurate height of an “Arie” and a posture of a board by making full use of a sensor for a technique called “Arie” of skateboarding.

Skateboarding is a symbol of youth street culture, loved by people of all ages, regardless of gender, and has a wide variety of skills. Among them, "Oly" is a basic type in any skill and is very important. For this reason, the skaters want to know efficiently how high they can jump each time and how the board is doing during the jump.
Traditionally, measuring the height and posture of the “Orley” is a method of using a third party to actually look at the height and get a guess, a method of recording with a video camera, and then checking by yourself, Or it was done by a method such as jumping over an actual obstacle.

JP 2002-40330 A

However, all of the conventional methods require too much space and labor, and accurate numerical values cannot be obtained.
As a related technique, there is a technique of Patent Document 1 as a system for measuring the center of gravity of a passenger. This system is equipped with a plurality of strain sensors on the board, a circuit for calculating the signal amplified by the signal amplification circuit, and a monitor control circuit, and includes a power source, a motor and an electric device, a tire, a steering mechanism, and an impact absorbing mechanism. Although it is configured and measures the center of gravity of the occupant, the height of the board cannot be measured.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to measure as an accurate numerical value regardless of location by making full use of a sensor such as a three-axis acceleration sensor or a distance measuring sensor.

  The inventor considered that the development of a measurement system using a plurality of sensors can simplify the measurement of the height and inclination of the board at the time of “Oly”.

The present invention comprises the following technical means.
(1) A distance measuring sensor, a three-axis acceleration sensor, a battery for power supply, wireless communication means, an electric circuit board provided with a control unit, and an electric circuit board that can be removed from the skateboard can be stored. A measurement system including a case and a mobile terminal including wireless communication means, an input device, a storage device, a display device, and a communication device, such as a smartphone or a tablet terminal, and the control unit periodically A means for measuring the distance between the bottom of the board and the ground and the inclination of the board with respect to the ground from the distance measuring sensor and the three-axis acceleration sensor, and obtaining the height of the board from the ground from these binary values, and periodically And a means for transmitting the height of the board from the ground and the inclination of the board to the ground at that moment to the portable terminal through wireless communication means.
(2) The mobile terminal receives the height of the board periodically transmitted from the ground at any time and displays the maximum value, and the periodically transmitted height of the board from the ground and its moment The board is selected from the inclination of the board with respect to the ground to the most parallel time in the air, and the means of displaying the height at that time, the height of the board sent periodically from the ground and the board at the moment Means for simulating the movement of a virtual board by CG based on an inclination with respect to the ground.

  According to the present invention, there is no need for a camera, a video, a third-party manpower or the like, which is necessary for measuring the height of the ollie, the angle of the skateboard, etc. Each value can be measured only with the tablet terminal. As a result, there has been no need for a place for installing a camera that has been required in the past and for securing a third party. In addition, since the device itself is removable, it can be attached to existing skateboards and can be removed when using techniques other than Ory.

It is the figure which installed the case which accommodated the electric circuit board in the skateboard. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of a height measurement system according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a case enlarged view installed in FIG. FIG. 2 is an arrangement of sensors and modules on an electric circuit board according to Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a measurement principle figure at the time of measuring the height and inclination which looked at the skateboard in Orley from the side. It is a measurement principle figure at the time of measuring the height and inclination which looked at the skateboard in Auley from the rear-wheel side. It is the figure which looked at the device from A section with respect to FIG. It is the figure which looked at the device from B section with respect to FIG. It is the figure where the numerical value etc. were displayed on the portable terminal after completion | finish of a measurement. It is the figure which displayed on the screen when processing on a portable terminal and simulating the motion of a virtual skateboard with CG.

An example of a procedure for actually measuring a mode for carrying out the invention will be described.
First, the usage state of the device body 1 of the measurement system of the present invention will be described.
FIG. 1 shows a skateboard body 2. FIG. 1 (a) is a plane on which the user rides, and FIG. 1 (b) is a bottom surface to which the device 1 of the present invention is attached. As shown in FIG. 1B, the device main body 1 of the present invention is used by being attached to the center of the back side portion of the main body of the skateboard 2.

  The present invention includes a device main body 1 attached to the skateboard main body 2 and a portable terminal 4 that receives a signal from the device main body 1 and displays a measurement result, and the skateboard 2 measured by the device main body 1. This is a measurement system characterized in that the height and angle of the display are displayed on the portable terminal 4.

The device body 1 includes a SHARP GP2Y0A710K, which is a distance measuring sensor 6 for measuring the height of the board, and a Kionics KXM52-1050, which is a 3-axis acceleration sensor 9 for measuring the tilt of the board. RBT-001 of Italy RoboTech srl, which is a Bluetooth (registered trademark) serial module 11 for performing Bluetooth communication with the mobile terminal 4, a power battery 12, and Atmel Corporation, which is a microcomputer 8 for controlling them. (Atmel) Inc. and ATmega328P-PU of various sensors, an electric circuit board 7 for installing the module, a case 15 for accommodating the electric circuit board 7, a case 15 accommodating the electric circuit board 7 from the impact A shock absorbing material (αGEL (registered trademark)) 14 for protection is provided. The absorbing material (αGEL (registered trademark)) 14 has an absorbing performance that does not break even if a raw egg is dropped on the “αGEL (registered trademark)” 14 of 18 cm to 2 cm above the ground. It has durability that exhibits stable performance under a wide temperature range of ℃.

  The portable terminal 4 has a Bluetooth (registered trademark) communication function. Examples of such a portable terminal 4 include a smartphone, a tablet, and a laptop computer, but are not particularly limited.

[System configuration]
Hereinafter, each component of the measurement system will be described in detail.
The system of this embodiment shown in FIG. 2 mainly includes a circuit unit 1 that measures height, performs arithmetic processing, and transmits the result to a mobile terminal, and a mobile terminal 4 that receives the transmitted value and displays it on a display. This is a component.

The size and weight of the assumed parts are shown below.

・ Sharp distance measuring module GP2Y0A710K 58mm × 17.6mm 9g
・ KXM52-1050 10mm × 10mm 1g or less ・ RBT-001 29mm × 29mm About 10g ・ Lithium coin battery 3V CR2020C φ20 × 2.5mm 2.4g
-Button battery board mounting holder CR2032 (small type) 29 x 23 mm 1 g or less-AVR microcomputer ATMEGA328P-PU 35 mm x 7 mm 1 g or less- Board 72 mm x 72 mm 35 g
・ Case (aluminum material) about 50g ・ αGEL specific gravity 0.98 (water is 1) about 100g

Each component is not limited to the size and weight described above. What is necessary is just to employ | adopt an appropriate thing according to the magnitude | size, weight shape, etc. of a board.

( Electric circuit board)
The electric circuit board 7 includes a power source battery 12 as a power source, a button battery board mounting holder 10, a microcomputer 8 (corresponding to an arithmetic unit in the claims) that performs arithmetic processing, various sensors, a board , and an impact on them. It is constituted by αGEL (registered trademark) 14 for protection from the above.
As shown in FIG. 7, the electric circuit board 7 is put in a case 15 using αGEL (registered trademark) 14 in order to protect it from an impact.

(Power button)
As for power ON / OFF, the device is activated by pressing a power button 5 attached to the device body 1 as shown in FIG. As shown in the sectional view of FIG. 7, the upper part of the power button 5 protrudes from the case 15. The switch on the electric circuit board 7 is simultaneously pressed by pressing the upper part of the power button 5 coming out of the case 15 described above.

(Power battery)
As the power battery 12, the lithium coin battery 3V described above is used. The CR2032 described above is used as the button battery substrate mounting holder 10 for mounting the battery. In addition to batteries, this device can also supply power to the device by installing a USB port as external power.

(Ranging sensor)
The GP2Y0A710K described above is used as the distance measuring sensor 6. The distance measuring sensor 6 can measure the distance without contact using infrared rays and PSD. The distance measuring sensor 6 has a size of 29.5 × 13 × 21.6 mm and can measure a distance of 20 cm to 150 cm. Since the average Ory jump height is about 60cm to 80cm, it can be said that it is suitable for the application of this device (Ohley height measurement). As for the distance measuring sensor 6, as shown in the sectional view of FIG. 8, the infrared irradiation portion of the distance measuring sensor 6 is arranged at the position of the hole formed in the case 15, and the infrared irradiation portion is exposed. It has become. Therefore, even if the electric circuit board 7 including the distance measuring sensor 6 is accommodated in the case 15, the distance to the ground 13 can be measured by the distance measuring sensor 6. The distance measuring sensor 6 is covered with the αGEL (registered trademark) 14 described above except for the infrared irradiation portion. In addition, an ultrasonic sensor can be used as a component other than the above that can be used in the present device. In the ultrasonic sensor, it is possible to calculate the distance from the sunsa to the ground 13 by calculating the relationship between the time required to transmit and receive the ultrasonic wave of the ultrasonic sensor attached to the device and the sound speed. .

(3-axis acceleration sensor)
As the triaxial acceleration sensor 9, the above-described KXM52-1050 is used.
The triaxial acceleration sensor 9 detects a slight change in position at a small movable part supported by a beam structure in the sensor as a change in electrostatic capacitance, and amplifies and measures them by an electric circuit to detect the ground in the air. Detected as the value of the board tilt relative to. In order to accurately measure the inclination of the skateboard, the three-axis acceleration sensor 9 is attached in parallel to the skateboard.
In addition to the triaxial acceleration sensor 9, a triaxial gyro module can be used as a sensor for detecting the tilt of the board in this device. The 3-axis gyro module calculates the angular velocity from the turning force applied to the vibrating object. It is lightweight and reliable because it does not use motors or bearings, and it is also used in smartphones.

(Microcomputer)
As the microcomputer 8, the above-described ATMEGA328P-PU is used. The microcomputer 8 has a function of calibrating the inclination with respect to the vertical direction when the power is turned on.
The microcomputer 8 also performs correction calculation for obtaining the true height of the skateboard body 2 from the ground 13. Specifically, correction calculation is performed based on a signal from the distance measuring sensor 6 and a signal from the triaxial acceleration sensor 9.
Since the average Airy flight time is 500 msec to 1500 msec, the distance from the skateboard body 2 by the distance measuring sensor 6 at every fixed interval (10 msec), and the inclination with respect to the vertical direction by the triaxial acceleration sensor 9 , Measure. As for the measurement of the inclination with respect to the vertical direction, the inclination with respect to the vertical direction of the board with respect to the ground in the air is detected as a value by using a triaxial acceleration sensor 9 attached to the device as shown in FIG. Using the distance between the distance measuring sensor 6 and the ground and the inclination with respect to the vertical direction measured by the three-axis acceleration sensor 9, a correction calculation for obtaining the true height of the skateboard body 2 from the ground 13 is performed on the microcomputer 8. Done. The correction calculation is performed by measuring the angle θ on the XZ plane and the angle φ on the YZ plane with the triaxial acceleration sensor 9 as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6 and measuring with the distance measuring sensor 6 from the angle information. The value L ′ is corrected twice and the true height L is obtained. The calculation formula is first corrected using the angle θ on the XZ plane. The correction formula here is L ″ = L′ cos θ. Next, correction is performed using the angle φ on the YZ plane. The correction formula here is L = L ″ cos θ. The height can be obtained from the true ground 13 by two corrections.

(Bluetooth (registered trademark) serial module)
The RBT-001 described above is used as the serial module 11 for Bluetooth (registered trademark) communication. The value of the true height from the ground 13 of the skateboard main body 2 calculated and calculated on the microcomputer 8 via the Bluetooth (registered trademark) serial module 11 is transmitted to the portable terminal 4. In addition, communication using infrared rays can be substituted for other communication means that can be used with the present device.

(Mobile device)
In transmitting the measured value to the mobile terminal 4 on the user side and receiving the value sent from the device body 1, the measured value is transmitted to the mobile terminal 4 via Bluetooth (registered trademark). Send and receive, process it, and display it on the display as shown in FIG.

  As for the measurement start and reset instructions, the user operates the portable terminal 4 to send measurement start and reset signals from the portable terminal 4 to the measurement device.

  The method of displaying the maximum value of the height from the ground 13 of the skateboard received by the portable terminal 4 is as follows: the height value from the ground 13 sequentially received from the device is compared with the maximum value until then, and more Displays the highest value as the maximum value.

  As a method of selecting and displaying the height at the time point closest to the parallel from the ground 13, the inclination with respect to the vertical direction obtained by the triaxial acceleration sensor 9 and sent via the microcomputer 8 and Bluetooth (registered trademark). From this information, the point in time of the skateboard body 2 that is closest to the ground 13 in the air is selected, and the maximum value of the height at that point is displayed.

  For the method of displaying an object that the skateboard body 2 can jump over from the value of the highest reaching point that is most parallel to the ground 13, from the value of the highest reaching point that is closest to the ground 13 described above, A thing that can jump over is displayed on the screen of the portable terminal 4 as shown in FIG. The method of selecting items that can actually be jumped over is described below. The mobile terminal 4 stores images of a plurality of familiar objects and information on the heights of the familiar objects. Compare the value of the highest reaching point that is closest to the ground from the ground 13 when the measurement is performed with the information on the height of a registered object that is close to you, and the value of the highest reaching point is close to you The highest thing in the height of the thing is selected as what can actually jump. Some familiar items to register include a triangular cone with a height of about 70 cm, a bench with a height of about 45 cm, and a square with a height of about 5 cm. The reason why the highest reaching point when parallel is used as a reference without using the highest reaching point as a reference is that the skateboard body 2 must be parallel to the ground 13 in order to jump over objects.

  The final processing performed on the portable terminal 4 is performed on the portable terminal 4 based on the tilt value of the skateboard body 2 sent at regular intervals and the true height from the ground 13 at the same time. It is to simulate the movement of the virtual board with CG. The state of the simulation is an image as shown in FIG. In addition, this time we are considering a smartphone equipped with a display and a portable terminal 4 such as a tablet, but as other means, install a terminal that only performs processing without a display and a liquid crystal display as an external output. In some cases, a value can be displayed on a large screen.

  The measurement system of the present invention is suitable for measuring the height of a moving object such as a scale board.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Device main body 2 Skateboard main body 3 User 4 Portable terminal 5 Power button 6 Distance sensor 7 Electric circuit board 8 Microcomputer 9 Triaxial acceleration sensor 10 Button battery board mounting holder
11 Bluetooth (registered trademark) serial module 12 Power supply battery 13 Ground 14 αGEL (registered trademark)
15 Case 16 Display screen for the highest point of skateboard 17 Display screen for the highest point at which the skateboard is most parallel to the ground

Claims (4)

A 3-axis acceleration sensor to measure the inclination of the skateboard;
A ranging sensor that measures the height of the skateboard;
An arithmetic unit for calculating a true height based on a numerical value measured by a distance measuring sensor and a numerical value measured by a three-axis acceleration sensor ;
A wireless communication module for wirelessly transmitting the value calculated by the arithmetic device to the outside;
An electric circuit board for installing the three-axis acceleration sensor, the distance measuring sensor, the arithmetic unit, and the wireless communication module;
A case for storing the electric circuit board having a shock absorbing material for reducing impact;
Measuring device equipped with. Means for activating the device in the measuring device according to claim 1;
Means for sequentially obtaining a numerical value measured by a distance measuring sensor and a numerical value measured by a three-axis acceleration sensor, and calculating a true value on an arithmetic device;
A measurement device having means for wirelessly transmitting a value calculated by the calculation device via a wireless communication module. A device main body, and a portable terminal that receives a signal from the device main body and displays a measurement result,
The device itself
A measurement system, which is the measurement device according to claim 1. The measurement system according to claim 3, wherein the portable terminal is
Means for receiving a true height value transmitted from the device body;
From the received true height value , the true height value when the skateboard was most perpendicular to the ground and the true value when the skateboard was the highest from the ground. A measuring system having means for storing only the height values and displaying these values on the screen.