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Trajectory Correction for Visually Impaired Athletes on 100 m Paralympic Races

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Comprehensible Science (ICCS 2021)

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The paper reports an experimental study that was carried out in Manaus (Amazonas, Brazil) with the participation of eight visually impaired athletes on 100 m sprint Paralympic races. A trajectory correction system was used, based on an accelerometer and a gyroscope for motion detection, an algorithm to track the athlete’s trajectories and a haptic actuator for the interaction with the athletes. The experimental results show the relevance in the use of this type of systems in Paralympic 100 m races for visually impaired athletes, mainly with the purpose of increasing their autonomy by mimicking their guides.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and the resources of the CICARI Lab (Control, Automation and Industrial Robotics Centre), Manaus, Brazil.

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  1. Innovation Center in Control, Automation and Industrial Robotics, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Luiz Alberto Queiroz Cordovil Júnior, Gabriel Tadayoshi Rodrigues Oka, Moisés Pereira Bastos, Renan Lima Baima, Nilton Cesar Ferst & Ana Carolina Oliveira Lima

  2. Control and Automation Department, State University of Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Moisés Pereira Bastos

  3. Institute of Telecommunications, Department of Electronic, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Carolina Oliveira Lima

  4. Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Ana Isabel Martins

  5. Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro, Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Nelson Pacheco Rocha

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Júnior, L.A.Q.C. et al. (2022). Trajectory Correction for Visually Impaired Athletes on 100 m Paralympic Races. In: Antipova, T. (eds) Comprehensible Science. ICCS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85799-8_33

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