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CSE 237B Project by Vladimir Ermakov. Acceleration Based Pedometer. Agenda. High Level Problem description Hardware Used/Resources Available Design Implementation Conclusion. Problem Description. Accelerometers today do not measure distance accurately.
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CSE 237B Project by Vladimir Ermakov Acceleration Based Pedometer
Agenda • High Level Problem description • Hardware Used/Resources Available • Design • Implementation • Conclusion
Problem Description • Accelerometers today do not measure distance accurately. • They measure the number of steps traveled, and multiply it by some constant step length. • This approach is not good for complex exercise sets, and hiking trips where step length varies.
Goal of The Project Come up with a pedometer that does a better distance approximation.
Two Approaches • Use instantaneous acceleration of the foot to get instantaneous velocity and calculate exact distance traveled. • Use the acceleration of the foot to figure out the mode/style of walking and provide different step lengths for different modes.
Why Approach 1 Failed • The accelerometer I had available is too coarse. • Error gets multiplied by t(10ms) added up 100 times a second and multiplied by t again. • This makes the error multiplied 10000 times for each second • With a regular pedometer the error is only a couple of centimeters a step.
Can We Do Better? • Yes, use modes approximation approach. • Have different modes (My implementation has 2 modes) to measure different step lengths. • Mode1 can be Walking • Mode2 can be Running • Use foot acceleration to decide which mode to use.
What is the Hardware Available • MMA3201D Accelerometer (+-40g) • Two Micro-controllers: • Atiny26L performs A2D on the accelerometer • AT89C5131(32 KB programmable flash) user interface and algorithms. • Connected through a serial interface(UART) • ES13BA0FR LCD display
Design • Two parts: • Sensor • Gets mounted on shoe • Atiny26L performs A2D conversion on Accelerometer output • Sends it to the processing unit upon request • Processing Unit • User interface: LCD, Keypad • Step counting/distance calculation algorithms • Sends requests to the Sensor via UART
More Details • Pressing GO turns on the processing unit. • After displaying the Splash Screen the system enters MAIN state. • From here one can enter the menu by pressing SELECT or start counting steps by pressing GO. • The menu exposes multiple parameters that control the sensitivity of the pedometer.
Parameters • Step Length – distance traveled in a step • Threshold – minimum acceleration to register as a step • Step Time – minimum number of measurements to be above threshold before a step is registered • Recoil – duration of a step. A new step will not be registered during this time.
States of the System • Stopped • Counting • Paused • Auto-configure
What is Auto-configure • Asks the user to walk 10 steps and uses that as a sample of the mode of walking. • Finds average maximum acceleration of the ten steps, and uses that as a guide when deciding what mode of walking one is in.
Implementation • No OS, just compiler supported interrupt handling • main() with a while(1) loop. • Scheduling is of tasks is performed using timers. • No preemption except for interrupt handling.
Timing • An interrupt handler timer0_irq() gets called every 10 milli-seconds. • Its job is to decrement counters and to read in the current state of the keyboard register. • Several important counters: • power_off_timer • sensor_timer
Serial Communication • The protocol is simple, byte based. • First byte is a start of packet indicator. • Its followed by 6 bytes of data – X, Y, Z • Actually each data parameter is only 10 bits, so 6 bits are wasted per parameter. • Not a bottle neck.
pkt_processSensor() • Responsible for data processing. • Sensor data has to be centered and normalized • Filter out the noise using the threshold specified by the user (High noise to data ratio) • Check step counter • After step gets registered set the recoil timer.
The Menu • Menu is implemented as a key driven state machine • Special cases are the Auto-configure, and Counting states where a special key(KEY_NONE) had to be generated in order to fit the model.
Real Time Issues • LCD updating is done synchronously and is very slow. • First I tried updating the screen every half a second – problems over/under counting steps. (Diagram on next slide) • Solution – to only update the display when a step occurs.
Testing • Testing was performed by running/walking around the house and block • Did very well counting steps. • Problems with determining modes, actually it barely works.
Reasons for Error • Acceleration does not differ that much between walking and running, so a more accurate accelerometer is needed to perform the job. • Possibly the approach with taking the maximum acceleration can be replaced with taking the average acceleration instead.
Conclusion • Instantaneous acceleration approach is not a feasible option. • Modes of walking approach has good potential, and could be made more reliable if more time and hardware resources were available
Questions? The End