Enrollment year
2019/2020
Academic discipline
ING-INF/06 (ELECTRONIC AND INFORMATION BIOENGINEERING)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE
Course
SPORT SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (28/09/2020 - 26/01/2021)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN TEST
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing the knowledge for carrying out quantitative measurements of the kinematics and dynamics of the athletic gesture, their acquisition and quantitative analysis. Use of simple biomechanical models for the interpretation and the prediction of the performance.
Course contents
Recapitulation summaries on mathematics and vector calculations
• Transducers, measurement and calibration chains.
• Noise, estimate and regression
• Signals of interest - acquisition: sampling and quantization.
• Time and frequency representation
• Kinematics of a point and of a rigid body.
• Articular kinematics
• Ergometry
• Accelerometry and inertial sensors
• Stereophotogrammetry for motion analysis
Teaching methods
Explanatory classes with slides and practical data analysis scenarios in Excel.
Reccomended or required readings
Anthony Blazevich, Biomeccanica dello Sport. Calzetti Mariucci Editore.
Assessment methods
Written and oral exam
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