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Sportster. The Hi-Tech Music Sportswear is the Russian project for the Software Design World Finals of Imagine Cup 2006. Sportster.theSpoke is a team blog where Team Russia's members will share their Imagine Cup experiences both before and during the World Finals in Agra and Delhi, India August 6-12, 2006. Expect great stories, dazzling photos and fun videos here. Enjoy ... and come back!
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Sportster Interviews a Marathone Runner Who Has Run More Than 90,000 km In His Life and Developed Computer Programs for USSR Marathone National Team
Thursday, August 03, 2006 1:01 AM
While developing Sportster we've been discussing the project with a lot of interesting people. It would usually happen in a Channel9 fashion: we'd find a person, arrange a meeting, go onsite, shoot the interview. It's really a great experience and fun. Plus it gives you invaluable information and expertise from true experts.
One of the most interesting meetings was the one with Viktor Gryaznov. Viktor graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1971 and now works as a chief scientist in the Department of Extreme States of Matter in the Institute of the Problems of Chemical Physics. As part of his job he explodes a lot of stuff in the Scientific Center in a small town of Chernogolovka not far from Moscow:))
Running and computing machines have been Viktor's hobby since he was a student. He is a member of Chernogolovka running club and the Chief organizer of Moscow Marathones. He has run more than 90,000 km (~55,000 miles) in his life which is more than twice around the Earth! Together with Dr. Nechaev he has been involved in the training process of the USSR national squad of marathone runners in the 1980's. So he was the right person to ask about the righ training programs both for professionals and amateurs.
In this very short clip of the interview Viktor tells how motivation for running emerges in amateurs, and why the smart training suit would be useful for both professional and amatuer runners (click the picture above, it's in Russian but with English subtitles).
Viktor Gryaznov was the first to implement a computer program to monitor the state of marathone runners after the training sessions and to adjust their training schedules accordingly. The programs were based on Bayevsky methods of heart rate variability analysis. It was the first time that this method was used outside of the Soviet Union Space Program. Dr. Bayevsky and medic experts in the Cosmonaut Training Center in the Star City (located some 50kms away to the north-east from Moscow) were surprised to learn that marathone runners appeared to have much better heart rate indexes than cosmonauts. Why were they surprised? Because cosmonauts are considered to be selected among the best of the best and then receive special trainings.
The first version of the program Gryaznov's was developed for the very successful Soviet mainframe called BESM-6 (the acronym translates from Russian into "The Big Electronic Computing Machine model 6"). The next version ran under MS-DOS. Now, there is a company called Interporgma that productized Viktor's computer programs into a personal diagnostical system called Stress-Test which is being sold to fitness centers and individuals who care to lead a healthy lifestyle.
In the end of this post we'd like to share a small clip of students running at a stadium in our university. We've been shooting a lot of people and have put up a short film from that material.
The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper article about Sportster (Russian only)
Monday, July 31, 2006 12:24 PM
31 июля 2006
Студенты физтеха изобрели «умный» спортивный костюм
Уникальной новинкой заинтересовались космонавты
За создание интеллектуальной тренировочной одежды четверо третьекурсников Московского физико-технического института Антон Филимонов, Денис Орлихин, Кирилл Тропин и Сергей Усилин взялись не с бухты-барахты, а с «корыстной» целью: победить на всемирном студенческом конкурсе Imagin Cup (по-русски «Кубок воображения»). Это такой международный смотр талантливых программистов.
Наши юные компьютерные гении, которым на днях предстоит поехать на конкурс в Индию, решили удивить жюри спортивным костюмом под названием «Спортстер». Умная одежка сама тренирует своего хозяина, контролируя состояние его организма и уровень физических нагрузок. Надевая на себя майку и шортики, снабженные искусственным интеллектом, человек занимается спортом под присмотром сразу и личного виртуального тренера, и эксперта-медика.
Как он работает?
Допустим, ты решил бегать по утрам. Но не просто так, а с умом. Заходишь на сайт в Интернете и скачиваешь на компьютер программу тренировок. Программы варьируются в зависимости от вида спорта, уровня подготовки спортсмена, поставленных целей (похудеть, поправить здоровье, подготовиться к марафону) и персональных физических параметров. Компьютер при этом подключен к твоему спортивному костюму. Правда, бегать с системным блоком под мышкой вам не придется. Связь между костюмом и «мозговым центром» осуществляется через смартфон со встроенным цифровым музыкальным проигрывателем.
Музыка, как выяснили студенты, - лучший регулировщик движения. Ведь человек подсознательно приноравливается под тот ритм, который в данный момент бьет ему в уши. Да и заниматься под музыку веселее.
В сам костюм вшиты датчики (они находятся в защитных влагонепроницаемых оболочках, чтобы одежду можно было стирать). Датчики отслеживают пульс, напряжение мышц, скорость пробежки. Все эти показатели стекаются на смартфон, а оттуда - на домашний компьютер. В общем, программа держит спортсмена под колпаком. Бежишь слишком быстро - она приятным женским голосом предупреждает: мол, пульс превышает норму - сбавляй темп. Не послушался - программа меняет музыкальную композицию на более плавную. Волей-неволей перестроишься под нужный ритм. А если, наоборот, филонишь или вообще остановился перекурить под деревцем, тут же врубается какой-нибудь «Раммштайн». Рванешь с места как миленький!
Благодаря тому, что костюм подключен еще и к Интернету, запросто можно устраивать соревнования между городами и даже странами. Ты, например, стартуешь в Москве, а некий Джонни вышел на дистанцию в Нью-Йорке. Через смартфон вам обоим будут поступать сведения о том, с какой скоростью бежит соперник, какой у него пульс и насколько он устал. У кого самые оптимальные показатели - тот и чемпион. Так, глядишь, скоро и на Олимпиады ездить не придется. Спортсмены начнут состязаться, не покидая своих городов, а судьи будут выяснять, кто круче, просиживая в Интернете.
Для кого предназначен?
Поскольку чудо-костюм для анализа физического состояния владельца пользуется космической методикой, рассекреченной совсем недавно, ребята первым делом продемонстрировали свое изобретение космонавтам. Александр Серебров и Александр Калери очень серьезно изучили новинку и поставили оценку «пять баллов». Могли бы и на «пять с плюсом», но Сан Саныч Серебров заметил:
- Надо доработать! Вшейте в майку, пожалуйста, еще датчик дыхания. А так вообще здорово придумали! Особенно насчет музыки. Я на орбите всегда под музыку физкультурой занимался.
Кроме космонавтов, костюмчик придется впору марафонцам, лыжникам, биатлонистам, бодибилдерам, тяжелоатлетам. Да вообще всем, кто ведет активный образ жизни, желает укрепить здоровье или сбросить лишний вес.
ЦИФРА
4500 рублей
Столько, по подсчетам студентов-изобретателей, может стоить умный костюм, если его запустить в производство. Совсем недорого, если учесть, что обычные «безмозглые» футболка, штаны и куртка известной фирмы обходятся в такую же сумму.
СПРАВКА «КП»
Imagine Cup проводится компанией «Майкрософт» ежегодно. В прошлом году соревновались 70 тысяч студентов из 100 стран мира. И первое место досталось россиянам! Они получили переходящий кубок и денежный приз за проект, который позволяет музыкантам, находящимся в разных точках планеты, играть вместе через Интернет. Наша команда организовала таким образом целый концерт. Проект произвел фурор. Его запатентовали, и совсем скоро именно по этой технологии будет организован фестиваль «Джаз - Коктебель», на котором лучшие джазмены мира будут исполнять композиции, находясь за тысячи километров друг от друга. Двое авторов проекта, Станислав Воног и Николай Сурин, в этом году стали тренерами команды, которая повезет на Imagine Cup в Индию умный спортивный костюм.
Лидия ПАВЛЕНКО
Всем срочно покупать сегодняшний номер "Комсомолки"! :)
Оригинал: http://www.kp.ru/daily/23747.5/55715/
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Phystech students invented a smart training suit.Cosmonauts got curious.
Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:35 PM
"Phystech students invented a smart training suit. Cosmonauts got curious."
- under this headline an article in the biggest Russian newspaper (namely, Komsomolskaya Pravda, which is even listed in Guinness World Records for the largest circulation ever) is going to be published next week.
We have never thought that participation in the Imagine Cup could lead us to a meeting with cosmonauts, the people who have always had the iconic status in Russia. Yet, we were proved wrong when we found ourselves in the Star Village last Thursday. The Star Village is an area in Moscow city near the Ostankino Tower where many cosmonauts and their families live.
We received a warm welcome from Alexander Kaleri, an active cosmonaut and the Hero of the Russian Federation and Alexander Serebrov, the Hero of the Soviet Union who in total spent more than a year on orbit (373 days), made 10 space walks resulting in more than 30 hours in the open space. He has also served as a Space Advisor to the President of Russia and as a Member of the Board of Directors of The Society for International Space Cooperation (SISC). The cosmonauts were accompanied by experts in virtual reality (Stanislav V. Klimenko, the Director of the Institute of Computing for Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences) and biomedical cybernetics (Vladimir A. Petrukhin, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
Alexander Kaleri, the Hero of Russia
Alexander Serebrov, the Hero of the USSR.
The quartet gathered to see the presentation of Sportster in the Star Village largely due to the fact that the suit's brain (the program that works on the smartphone) is based on the same medical theory which was used for monitoring the physiological and psychological state of cosmonauts both during the preparation for space flights and on the orbit. The theory - invented by Dr. Roman M. Bayevsky in late 1950's - was first applied in Yuri Gagarin flight on April 12, 1961 and then was being consistently refined during the consecutive cosmonaut flights to the orbit. In late 1980's Bayevsky method was used in the training process of USSR national biathlone and marathone teams. In early 2000's it is being used in a prototype of a smart training suit which uses the influence of music to help people on planet Earth train smarter, have more fun and basically lead heathier lives.
The method calculates various statistical properties of the human electrocardiogram. The calculated numbers - called Bayevsky indexes - can tell you the current physiological and even psychological state of the person with a very high degree of accuracy. You can almost tell your current mood by calculating the indexes and using adaptive algorithms.
We ran a full 20-minute demo for the cosmonauts. All the features worked perfectly. Sergey ran for 10 minutes in the presentation hall in the Star Village. The cosmonauts witnessed all the information from Sergey's sportsterwear sensors on a large screen. They also saw how system guides the athlete during the workout and uses music to make him follow the training program. The program adjusts training program based on the feedback from ECG and its decisions are based on Bayevsky method.
Serebrov and Kaleri (left) are listening to Anton (center). Sergey and Dr. Klimenko are on the right. The Imagine Cup (center) was brought to the Star Village to tell the cosmonauts more about the competition.
This meeting went very well and was very encouraging for us especially because Alexander Serebrov and Alexander Kaleri appreciated our project.
"Overall well done! Especially how you use music. I've always trained with music on the orbit." - Serebrov said.
At that day (last Thursday) we also finished our work on water isolation. Now we can wash our sportsterwear because we use two-layer water protection system for our sensors with waterproof hermetic Sealant Pentelast 1100.
Left to Right: Alexander Kaleri, Yuri Gagarin (the first man in Space), Alexander Serebrov
Left to Right: Kirill, Stan (mentor), Denis, Sergey, A. Kaleri, Y. Gagarin (portrait), A. Serebrov, S. Klimenko, V. Petrukhin, Nick (mentor), Anton
P.S. For those who don't know who cosmonauts are: "Astronaut" is a US version of "Cosmonaut" (Astronaut is a greek word for "the sailor of the stars" while Cosmonaut stands for "the sailor of the universe").
Sportster - Team Russia's project for Imagine Cup 2006 Software Design World Finals
Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:20 PM
Hi, there!
You are reading the blog of IC 2006 SDI Team Russia.
Imagine Cup World Finals are approaching very fast and lots of people have been asking us about our project. So finally we decided to start this blog. Here we'll try to tell you more about our project, our experience of building it and - of course! - our experiences at the world finals in India. This is a team blog and we are going to post a lot of photos and even videos here!
So who are we?
We are Kirill (red - according to the color of the t-shirt on the photo below), Sergey (green), Denis (yellow) and Anton (blue) - 3rd year students of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Our project for Imagine Cup 2006 is "Sportster. The high-tech music sportswear". To cut the long story short, we'll just paste here the description of our team and project that went directly into the Imagine Cup 2006 Official Brochure. It's not much text - obviusly, the brochure has space limitations, so expect to learn more about the project in the next posts. Until then -- Enjoy!
--The Sportster Team
1. Photograph of the Team
2. Photograph/ Slide Capsuling your Project
3. Team Name
Eternity
4. Project Name
Sportster. The Hi-tech Smart Music Sportswear.
5. University
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)
6. Team Members
Anton Filimonov, Denis Orlikhin, Kirill Tropin, Sergey Usilin
Team advisors: Nick Surin and Stan Vonog (Imagine Cup 2005 winners)
7. Background on your Team
Technology, sport and music are our passions. A hardware wizard, a UI design guru, a coding ace, and a math prodigy, 3rd year students and great friends studying Applied Mathematics, Radio Engineering and Cybernetics at Russia’s leading technology university, we teamed up for Imagine Cup 2006 because we like to dream, explore and discover. We are big believers in healthy lifestyle, so this year’s Imagine Cup theme is very close to our hearts. We can hardly imagine our lives without learning new things and trying to make this world a better place.
8. What inspired you to create your Project
We listen to music everywhere: at home, on the road, in the city and while exercising. Music turns a training session into a completely different, exciting experience. Music can inspire and motivate, energize and relax. So wouldn’t it be great to have a personal coach which is always with you, and literally listens to your heart and speaks to your mind the language of music?
9. Project Overview
Sportster is a hi-tech sportswear which uses music to influence athletes’ performance, help them train smarter and have more fun. Sportster training suits are both medical experts and professional coaches that guide your running, cycling or gym workouts, both in real time and in the long term. Turn your workout into a virtual real-time competition with other people wearing Sportster gear. Let the music you love energize your training experience!
10.Technical Overview
Sportster training suit has integrated wiring and pockets which accommodate accelerometers, pulse meter sensors and a microcontroller with our self-developed firmware. The suit’s brain is a smart phone with built-in MP3 player and GPS receiver. During the workouts all Sportster training suits are connected with each other via 3G or GPRS. Sportster training plans were created in collaboration with marathon and fitness coaches, and sport doctors. Sportster uses Baevsky method of heart rate variability analysis developed as part of the Soviet Union Space Program to monitor and predict the physiological state of cosmonauts.
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