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Quality assessment of an UWB positioning system for indoor wheelchair court sports

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posted on 2015-03-23, 14:20 authored by Bertrand Perrat, Martin J. Smith, Barry Mason, James Rhodes, Vicky Goosey-TolfreyVicky Goosey-Tolfrey
Ultra-Wide Band radio positioning systems are maturing very quickly and now represent a good candidate for indoor positioning. The aim of this study was to undertake a quality assessment on the use of a commercial Ultra-Wide Band positioning system for the tracking of athletes during indoor wheelchair court sports. Several aspects have been investigated including system setup, calibration, sensor positioning, determination of sport performance indicators and quality assessment of the output. With a simple setup procedure, it has been demonstrated that athletes tracking can be achieved with an average horizontal positioning error of 0.37 m (σ = ± 0.24 m). Distance covered can be computed after data processing with an error below 0.5% of the course length. It has also been demonstrated that the tag update rate and the number of wheelchairs on the court does not affect significantly the positioning quality; however, for highly dynamic movement tracking, higher rates are recommended for a finer dynamic recording.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology

Citation

PERRAT, B. ... et al, 2015. Quality assessment of an UWB positioning system for indoor wheelchair court sports. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, 229(2), pp. 81-91.

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Sage (© IMechE)

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2015

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part P: Journal of Sports Engineering and Technology, and the definitive version will be available at: http://pip.sagepub.com/

ISSN

1754-3371

eISSN

1754-338X

Language

  • en

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