ONLINE CYCLIC MOTION MODELING AND FEEDBACK FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING AND REHABILITATION

When performing cyclic movements during physical training or rehabilitation sessions, executing the exercises improperly may lead to poor results or even in injuries. The main goal of this work is to provide a tool that may help people to increase the correctness of movements based on a real-time visual feedback system. In order to provide an intuitive and effective visual feedback to the user, relevant features of the executed movement are estimated online, hence enabling synchronization of the reference movement with the measured motion in a display. Preliminary evaluation of the method using two reference movements and three different visual aids was performed, indicating satisfactory, but still irregular performance.