Esteira eletrônica com velocidade controlada por lógica fuzzy

Abstract

The aim of this work is to develop an intelligent system to speed control of a treadmill. The intelligent control system minimizes the risks of the user’s cardiac activity, allowing the maximization of the benefits that the physical activity can grant the user of this equipment. The developed intelligent controller is based on fuzzy control techniques, and has a simplified software. Besides, the developed hardware is based on cheaper and simpler electronic circuits, which allows its installation on driver kinds of treadmills existing in the market. The main characteristic of the developed equipment and that a controller adaptable is generated in agreement with the user`s profile, that is, for a group of such characteristics lite age, physical conditioning, index of corporal mass and training area recommended. The system builds a controller fuzzy automatically inside capable of maintaining the user`s heart activity of suitable safety´s strip for the doctors and / or physiotherapists, in agreement with the supplied characteristics. The developed equipment, its hardware and software, is described in full detail and the results of the tests accomplished with several users are compared to simulated values by a software dedicated to industrial control, presenting an inferior discrepancy of 10%. The system also presents way results that guarantee the physical integrity of who made use of the equipment, it doesn't tend, at any time, outdated the value of maximum heart frequency allowed for the user. It is still, maintained the heart frequency in a strip among 60 to 85% of the maximum heart frequency, verifying the controller's efficiency.