Hi friends!
I'm entering my final year of electrical engineering next year, and need to think up a thesis topic (yes, half a year away and I'm thinking ahead!). I enjoy the field of signal processing, and am curious to see if I could use this as an excuse
to visit the rink more often. Does anyone have any potential thesis research ideas that I could suggest to a university supervisor (suitable for an undergraduate, ideally some aspect has been done before so I could use for literature review/inspiration)? Here are some sample thoughts I currently have:
- Taking videos of skaters doing their elements and analysing their body positions to determine their centre of mass (analysing videos, essentially - which is what coaches do by eye anyway, I wonder if it could be beneficial to have a system do it for you?)
- The same as above, but using sensors on the skaters to recreate the video digitally for analysis (would this make it easier or harder to analyse?)
- Pressure sensor insoles for boots that give live feedback to how much relative pressure they are applying to each part of the insole during a move (not sure how useful this may be)
Please feel free to build on these, or suggest your own ideas. All are welcome, as long as they include some digital analysis component. Bonus points if you could direct me to some relevant resources.
Also feel free to support/disagree to the usefulness of doing a thesis in this area. It is often said that nothing beats having a coach watch you skate and giving live feedback... Thoughts?