本文發展一腳踏車運動量與體能評估系統,此腳踏車在行進間可即時檢知踩踏扭力、齒盤轉速、卡路里與心跳等,並顯示在手機上。首先,在腳踏車齒盤上裝設一扭力與角度檢知單元,使用應變規與角度感測器分別檢知受踩踏時的平均扭力值與齒盤平均轉速,並將此數據透過藍芽無線傳送至手機,作顯示與儲存。另外,在腳踏車手把上設置一心跳檢知單元,以反射型紅外線對手指微血管反射率原理而偵測騎乘者心跳,所得數據也以藍芽無線傳送至手機。並且本文開發一支援Window Mobile 6.5.3作業系統的手機應用程式,處理接收到扭力、轉速、心跳等數據,並計算卡路里消耗量與運動強度加以顯示,並將騎乘者每一次運動歷程以XML檔案儲存之。此XML檔案可以傳送到電腦端,以Visual Basic所建立的一運動歷程分析介面,可顯示每一次運動歷程中每一圈的平均踩踏扭力、平均踩踏轉速、心跳與運動強度等資訊。此系統提供科學化數據給騎乘者評估個人運動量與體能情況,更可以做為長期體能管理,甚至提供腳踏車製造商對腳踏車原型機進行性能測試。
A bicycle system is developed to estimate the sporting calorie and personal vigor for a riding course. The system can in real time record the torque of stamping on the bicycle pedal, angle of chain wheel, calorie and heart rate during the bicycle riding. One unit of, which including a gauge-based torque sensor and an angle sensor is installed on the bicycle chain wheel. The average stamping torque and the average angular speed of chain wheel will be obtained separately and through Bluetooth wireless be transmitted to a cellular phone then be indicated and saved. The other unit of, a heart rate monitor is installed on the handlebar of bicycle and it monitors the heart rate of a rider based on the principle of the reflection rate of infrared-ray to a blood capillary on finger. The heart rate also through Bluetooth wireless is transmitted to the cellular phone. Furthermore, on the cellular phone an application for Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is developed to deal with the received data from those two units. Those data for each riding course are saved as a XML file then can be transmitted to PC. Finally, for each riding course, the information of including the average torque and the average angular speed for each revolution of chain wheel, heart rate and sport intensity will be showed in detail on a PC interface built in Visual Basic. The developed system can provide the reality information for a rider to estimate and manage personal vigor in long-term. Furthermore, the devices developed in this research can also be applied to the bicycle production process to perform prototyping tests.