title: Heart rate control during treadmill exercise.
abstract: A computer-controlled treadmill and related data collection and processing systems have been developed for the control of heart rate during treadmill exercise. Minimizing deviations of heart rate from a preset profile is achieved by controlling the speed and/or the gradient of the treadmill. A simple and practical heart rate measurement algorithm has been developed to robustly measure the variations of heart rate. Both conventional Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control and fuzzy Proportional-Integral (PI) control approaches have been employed for the controller design. The fuzzy Proportional-Integral algorithm achieved better heart rate tracking performance. Finally, a heart rate based exercising protocol was successfully implemented on the newly designed exercise system.
authors.affiliation: Human Performance Lab, School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, University of New South Wales,UNSW SydneyN.S.W. 2052 Australia. Email address: steven.su@unsw.edu.au.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Celler
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Savkin