KR101250247B1 - System and Method for Bike Simulators - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a bike simulator system and method capable of measuring and providing position, speed and attitude information of a bicycle, as well as attitude information of a bicycle occupant, posture correction information and ground shape information. Bike simulator system according to an embodiment of the present invention for measuring the position and speed of the bicycle and the attitude of the bicycle, a bicycle attitude measurement unit for measuring the position of the bicycle occupant, and the ground on which the bicycle is driven Ground shape measuring unit for measuring the shape information of the bicycle, the position, speed and posture information of the bicycle measured by the bicycle attitude measuring unit, the information of the bicycle rider attitude measured by the occupant attitude measuring unit, the ground measured by the ground shape measuring unit And a controller for analyzing the bicycle driving information using the shape information, and an output unit for outputting and outputting the bicycle driving information analyzed by the controller.

Description

System and Method for Bike Simulators

The present invention relates to a simulator system and method for assisting in cycling.

Unlike jogging, exercise is an aerobic exercise that doesn't burden the joints. It is good for people with obesity or poor cardiopulmonary function due to the effects of cholesterol and cardiopulmonary function. Accordingly, the population enjoying bicycles is increasing, and the general public who enjoys mountain biking and cycling as a sport is also increasing. Accordingly, sports content that allows mountain biking or cycling at a gym or home is also being released.

In this environment, bicycles are becoming more advanced than cars, and safety devices such as navigation using smartphones and headlights using high-brightness LEDs are mounted and used. In addition, the bike's accessories are popular with taillights, precursors, and speedometers, and ordinary people who exercise with special bicycles can check the distance and current speed of the bicycle using a GPS module, a speed sensor, or a cadence.

However, such a conventional technique measures the position, speed, etc. using a cadence or GPS module, but does not provide information about posture correction and measurement of the shape of the ground and the position of a person riding a bicycle.

In particular, riding a bicycle in the wrong position may cause acute lower back pain and knee pain rather than exercise effects, and it may cause spinal discs, so the shape of the ground, the position of the person, and posture correction information are very important for the person riding the bicycle. It can be said.

The present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art, and to provide a bike simulator system dimming method that can measure and provide not only the driving information of the bicycle, but also the posture information and correction information, the shape information of the ground. It is done.

To this end, the bicycle simulator system according to an embodiment of the present invention is a bicycle posture measuring unit for measuring the position, speed and posture of the bicycle, a passenger posture measuring unit for measuring the posture of the bicycle occupant, and the bicycle posture measuring unit A controller for analyzing bicycle driving information using the bicycle's posture information and the bicycle's posture information measured by the occupant's posture measuring unit, and an output unit for outputting the bicycle driving information analyzed by the controller to be provided to the user. do.

At this time, the bike simulator system according to an embodiment of the present invention further comprises a ground shape measuring unit for measuring the shape information of the ground on which the bicycle is running, the control unit the shape information of the ground measured by the ground shape measuring unit It can be provided to the user through the output unit.

The bicycle posture measuring unit may include one or more of a speedometer, a motion sensor, and a GPS module attached to a bicycle.

In this case, the motion sensor may be one of an electronic compass, a variable resistance sensor, a gyro sensor, an encoder, and a tilt sensor.

The occupant attitude measuring unit may be one or more motion sensors attached to the body of the bicycle occupant.

The ground shape measuring unit may be a distance detecting sensor attached to the bicycle and measuring a distance to the ground on which the bicycle is driven.

The output unit may include a voice output unit or a display unit, and the controller may control one or more of bicycle position information, bicycle position information, bicycle speed information, occupant attitude information, and ground shape information through the display device. The user may be provided with a voice or an image through the output unit.

The bike simulator method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of measuring the posture of the bicycle using the bicycle posture measuring unit, measuring the posture of the bicycle occupant using the occupant posture measuring unit, the measured bicycle posture information and The method may include analyzing bicycle driving information by using posture information of a bicycle occupant, and outputting the analyzed bicycle driving information to a user.

In addition, the bicycle simulator method according to an embodiment of the present invention further comprises the step of measuring the shape information of the ground on which the bicycle is running using the ground shape measuring unit, and providing the user with the shape information of the measured ground can do.

The analyzed bicycle driving information may include at least one of bicycle attitude information, bicycle position information, bicycle speed information, and occupant attitude information.

The bike simulator system and method according to the present invention provides not only bicycle posture information, but also posture information, posture correction information, and ground shape information of a bicycle occupant, thereby providing comprehensive bicycle driving information to a bicycle occupant and correcting a bicycle posture. To help.

1 is a view showing the attitude of a bicycle and a cyclist when operating a bicycle on a sloped road.
2 is a schematic structural diagram of a bike simulator system 5 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a view showing a first embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.
4 is a view showing a second embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.
5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of measuring a posture of a bicycle using the bicycle posture measuring unit according to the configuration of FIG. 3 or FIG. 4.
6A is a schematic diagram illustrating a method for measuring ground shape information by a bicycle equipped with a ground shape measuring unit.
6B is a conceptual view illustrating a method of measuring ground shape information by using the ground shape measuring unit using distance information to the ground.
6C is a diagram illustrating ground shape information obtained by the method according to FIG. 6B.
7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a method of obtaining bicycle rider attitude information using an inertial sensor attached to a body part of a bicycle rider.
8 is a view showing a third embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.
9 is a view showing a fourth embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.
10 is a view showing a fifth embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.
11 is a diagram illustrating an output unit including a display device.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the accompanying drawings and the following description are only possible embodiments of the bike simulator system and method according to the present invention, and the technical idea of the present invention is not limited to the above.

1 is a view showing the attitude of a bicycle and a cyclist when operating a bicycle on a sloped road.

As shown in FIG. 1, when a person rides a bicycle and runs on a sloped road, since the ground 1 of the road is inclined, the position 2 of the bicycle is inclined by θ clockwise relative to the ground. In addition, it can be seen that the position 3 of the person is inclined counterclockwise based on the position 2 of the bicycle.

Conventionally, in the case of a device used for a bicycle, only the information of the position, speed, tilt, direction, etc. of the bicycle is provided, and thus there is a limitation in that information on the shape of the ground and the attitude of the bicycle occupant cannot be provided.

In order to overcome these limitations, the present invention measures not only bicycle posture information, but also shape information of the ground and posture information of a bicycle occupant, and provides the same to the occupant. Furthermore, the posture correction information of the occupant can also be provided based on this information.

Such posture correction information is considered to be very useful for the general athletes who enjoy cycling as well as for professional athletes. Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of the bike simulator system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 2 to 11.

2 is a schematic structural diagram of a bike simulator system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the bike simulator system 5 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a bicycle posture measurer 10, a rider posture measurer 20, a ground shape measurer 30, and a controller ( 40) and the output unit 50 is configured.

The bicycle posture measuring unit 10 measures the posture information of the bicycle, such as the direction and inclination of the bicycle, and the speed and position information of the bicycle. The bicycle posture measuring unit 10 may be formed of a motion sensor, which will be described later.

The occupant attitude measuring unit 20 serves to measure the posture of the bicycle occupant. The occupant posture measuring unit 20 may also be made of various motion sensors attached to the body part of the occupant, which will be described later.

The ground shape measuring unit 30 serves to measure shape information of the ground on which the bicycle is driven, and may use a distance sensor. Detailed description will be described later.

The controller 40 may measure posture information of the bicycle measured by the bicycle posture measurer 10, posture information of the bike occupant measured by the occupant posture measurer 20, and the ground shape measured by the ground shape measurer 30. Analyze the bicycle driving information using the information, and serves to transmit to the output unit 50 to be described later.

The output unit 50 may output the bicycle driving information analyzed by the controller 40 to the user and may include one or more of a voice output unit and a display unit.

3 is a view showing a first embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.

Referring to FIG. 3, the bicycle posture measuring unit 10 includes two modules, a bicycle posture measuring unit 10a and a bicycle posture measuring unit 10b, and the bicycle posture measuring unit 10a is a GPS module or a speedometer. Any one, and may include any one of an electronic compass, a variable resistance sensor, a gyro sensor or an encoder.

The GPS module can measure the bicycle's absolute position and speed information, and the speedometer can measure the speed information. An electronic compass, a variable resistance sensor, a gyro sensor, and an encoder sensor are used to measure posture information of a bicycle using direction information and tilt information.

The bicycle posture measuring unit 10b includes a tilt sensor to measure the amount of rotation of the handle of the bicycle.

4 is a view showing a second embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.

The bicycle posture measuring unit 10c according to the second embodiment of FIG. 4 may use any one of a GPS module and a speedometer, an inertial sensor and a electronic compass made of a tilt sensor and a gyro sensor without using a separate tilt sensor. It is composed in combination.

There is an advantage that the structure can be further simplified by not placing the tilt sensor separately.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of measuring a posture of a bicycle using the bicycle posture measuring unit according to the configuration of FIG. 3 or FIG. 4.

First, by using the gyro sensor 11 to calculate the rotation matrix according to the change in the attitude of the bicycle, from this to calculate the direction (100)

When the direction information of the bicycle is obtained from the tilt sensor 12 or the electronic compass 13 having the acceleration sensor 12a or the level sensor 12b, this information and the rotation matrix calculated from the gyro sensor 11 are used. The gravity-corrected low residual acceleration value is calculated (200).

Next, the speed of the bicycle is calculated by integrating this value, or the speed of the bicycle is calculated using the speedometer 14 (300).

Integrate the speed of the bicycle to calculate the position of the bicycle, or calculate the position of the bicycle using the GPS module 15 (400).

FIG. 6A is a schematic diagram illustrating a method of measuring ground shape information by a bicycle equipped with a ground shape measuring unit, and FIG. 6B is a conceptual diagram illustrating a method of measuring ground shape information using distance information to the ground. to be.

Referring to FIG. 6A, it can be seen that the ground shape measuring unit 30 formed of two pairs is installed at the front wheel portion a of the bicycle. The ground shape measuring unit 30 may be configured as a distance sensor which is placed on the bicycle and measures the distance to the ground on which the bicycle is driven.

Referring to FIG. 6B, it can be seen that the ground shape measuring unit 30 made of an ultrasonic wave or a laser sensor may be requested at the position of FIG. 6A or 6B. 6A shows that the ground shape measuring section 30 is installed in two pairs at the front wheel position a of the bicycle, but the ground shape measuring section 30 is the rear wheel position b as shown in FIG. 6B. In addition, it may be installed, it may be configured in various numbers, such as one, three, of course. m1 and n1 are the distance values measured by (a), and m2 and n2 represent the distance values measured by (b).

That is, the ground shape measuring unit 30, which is composed of an ultrasonic sensor or the like, measures the distance to the ground every hour by the time such as the time when the ultrasonic waves are reflected on the ground and returns to the ground while driving the bicycle to determine the ground shape information of the total driving section. You get it.

The obtained ground shape information is shown in FIG. 6C.

7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a method of obtaining bicycle rider attitude information using an inertial sensor attached to a body part of a bicycle rider.

The occupant attitude measuring unit 20 of the present invention may include one or more motion sensors attached to the body of the bicycle occupant. In this case, the motion sensor is also called a motion recognition sensor, and means a sensor including an acceleration sensor, an inclination sensor, a gyro sensor, and the like to acquire position and direction information.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example of the occupant attitude measuring unit 20, which includes an inertial sensor composed of a tilt sensor and a gyro sensor, and a module composed of an electronic compass (20a and 20b).

One or more modules of the occupant posture measuring unit 20 may be properly attached to each body part of the occupant connected to the joint. FIG. 7 shows that one module 20a is installed at the front of the chest, and one module 20b is installed at the waist of the lower body.

When the occupant takes an operation such as tilting the upper body while driving the bicycle, the postures of the upper body and the lower body can be calculated using the two modules 20a and 20b.

8 is a view showing a third embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle attitude measuring unit, Figure 9 is a view showing a fourth embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle attitude measuring unit.

Bicycle posture measuring units 10d, 10e, and 10f according to the third and fourth embodiments shown in FIGS. 8 and 9 are according to the first and second embodiments shown in FIGS. Corresponds to the configuration except for the GPS module in the bicycle posture measuring unit 10.

In other words, when the bicycle is operated only indoors, the configuration is simplified by removing the GPS module. The configuration can be applied to the cycle exercise equipment used in the gym or home.

10 is a view showing a fifth embodiment of the configuration of the bicycle posture measuring unit.

The configuration of FIG. 10 is characterized by the use of a computer peripheral mouse mounted to obtain a combination of two relative angles, unlike previous methods of obtaining the absolute angles of roll, pitch, and yaw. .

Referring to FIG. 10, the bicycle posture measuring unit 10f includes a laser mouse and a laser sensor to detect a value against relative coordinates of the X and Y axes. This configuration is very convenient because you can use existing hardware such as a traditional desktop system.

11 is a diagram illustrating an output unit including a display device.

The control unit 40 is the bicycle posture measuring unit 10, the rider posture measuring unit 20, and the ground shape measuring unit 30, the posture information of the bicycle, the position and speed information of the bicycle, the posture information of the bicycle occupant, the ground By receiving the shape information, the posture correction information of the occupant is generated.

The output unit 50 may be formed as a voice output unit for providing information by voice or a display device 50 for providing information as an image as illustrated in FIG. 11. That is, the bicycle driving posture of the user may be displayed on the display device 50, and the correct operation of the corresponding body part may be displayed to perform upper body correction and lower body correction. Of course, when the output unit 50 includes a voice output unit, such information may be provided by voice.

A method for simulating a bicycle by a user using the bike simulation system 5 according to the present invention is as follows.

First, the user attaches an inertial sensor or an electronic compass to the upper body (eg chest) and lower body (eg waist) before riding the bicycle.

The bicycle posture measuring unit 10, the ground shape measuring unit 30, the control unit 40, and the output unit 50 are mounted to the bicycle.

The occupant posture measuring unit 20 and the bicycle posture measuring unit 10, the ground shape measuring unit 30, the control unit 40, and the output unit 50, which are configured by an inertial sensor or an electronic compass, are wired or wireless network type. Connected to each other to transmit and receive signals.

The control unit 40 receives and analyzes the information received from each module, and outputs the bicycle's posture information, the bicycle's position and speed information, the passenger's posture information, the ground shape information, and the passenger's information through the output unit 50 by voice or video. Provide one or more of the posture correction information.

In this manner, by providing comprehensive bicycle driving information to the bicycle rider, it is possible to provide an environment in which the bicycle can be efficiently operated or practiced by the general public as well as professional athletes.

5: bike simulator system 10: bicycle position measurement unit
20: occupant attitude measurement unit 40: control unit
50: Output section

Claims (10)

A bicycle posture measuring unit for measuring a position and speed of a bicycle and a posture of a bicycle;
A rider posture measuring unit measuring a posture of a bicycle occupant;
A controller for analyzing bicycle driving information by using the position, speed, and attitude information of the bicycle measured by the bicycle attitude measuring unit and the attitude information of the bicycle occupant measured by the passenger attitude measuring unit;
An output unit which outputs the bicycle driving information analyzed by the controller to provide to the user; And
Including a ground shape measuring unit for measuring the shape information of the ground on which the bicycle is running,
And the control unit provides the shape information of the ground measured by the ground shape measuring unit to the user through the output unit. delete The method of claim 1,
The bicycle attitude measuring unit bike simulator system, characterized in that it comprises at least one of a speedometer, a motion sensor, and a GPS module attached to the bicycle. The method of claim 3,
The motion sensor is a bike simulator system, characterized in that one of the electronic compass, variable resistance sensor, gyro sensor, encoder, tilt sensor. The method of claim 1,
The occupant attitude measuring unit is a bike simulator system, characterized in that at least one motion sensor attached to the body of the bicycle vehicle. The method of claim 1,
The ground shape measuring unit is a bike simulator system, characterized in that the distance sensor is attached to the bicycle to measure the distance to the ground on which the bicycle is running. The method of claim 1,
The output unit includes a voice output unit or a display unit,
The control unit provides the user with at least one of the bicycle posture information, the bicycle position information, the bicycle speed information, the occupant posture information, and the shape information of the ground through the output unit, by voice or video. Simulator system. Measuring the posture of the bicycle using the bicycle posture measuring unit;
Measuring a posture of a bike occupant using a rider posture measurer;
Analyzing bicycle driving information by using the measured bicycle attitude information and the bicycle driver's attitude information;
Outputting the analyzed bicycle driving information to a user;
Measuring shape information of the ground on which the bicycle is driven using the ground shape measuring unit; And
And providing the measured shape information of the ground to the user. delete 9. The method of claim 8,
The analyzed bicycle driving information includes at least one of bicycle attitude information, bicycle position information, bicycle speed information, and passenger attitude information.

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