Project
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| 16 | Footballytics - Tracking geolocation, orientation, and speed of a football |
Akshay Bapat Varun Venkatapathy Vibhav Adivi |
Xiangyuan Zhang | design_document1.pdf final_paper1.pdf photo1.png photo2.png presentation1.pptx proposal1.pdf video |
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| # Footballytics Team Members: - Student 1 Akshay Bapat(aabapat2) - Student 2 Varun C Venkatapathy(vcv2) - Student 3 Vibhav Adivi(vadivi2) **Problem** American football is a sport comprising two teams of eleven played on a field of 120 yds by 53 and ⅓ yards. One team attempts to either score touchdowns or field goals by either passing or running the football, an oval ball. The offense, or the team attempting to score the ball, has four downs to move ten yards from where they started. If they accomplish this goal, they get a new set of downs based on where they were stopped. This is decided by the referees, specifically the line judge, and is done through sight. This has some obvious issues, such as the accuracy of the referee in question. In this day and age, when other sports are able to do away with much of the inaccuracy in deciding scoring, we believe that there should be a solution to the most important part of football and the subjectivity surrounding it. **Solution** Sensors in the football will be able to provide real-time data and will have the ability to publish the data to remote servers. The data will include 4 key data measurements including geolocation, pressure, acceleration and gyroscope sensors which will allow us to track free-fall and impact during game play, as well as its precise location. We also want to measure the speed of throws, grip strength of the person throwing and catching. The final part is using some sort of indicator to make sure without a doubt that the requirements have been met for either a new set of downs, or touchdown. **Subsystem 1:** _Sensor suite_ This subsystem consists of a 9 axis motion sensor(accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer), GPS, and pressure so that we can track metrics of different plays and throws while simultaneously always knowing where the ball is Components: ESP32 Microcontroller 6 system ICM-20602 9 system BMF055 GPS system using ESP32 UltraWideband technology with 3 anchor points to track location down to the centimeter. (DW1000) **Subsystem 2:** _Power and Charging_ Lithium ion battery that we can charge using a power strip Components: PRT-13851 Lithium Ion Battery and Charger **Subsystem 3:** _Actuation_ Variable leds that light up depending on downs, out of bounds or touchdowns Components: LEDS Grove - Variable Color LED Green for touchdown Blue is for passing the down marker. Red is for out of bounds **Criteria For Success**\ Checkpoint 1: We want the tracking system enabled to check positioning on the football field\ Checkpoint 2: include the accelerometer and gyroscope tracker\ Checkpoint 3: air-pressure sensor to track pressure of the space within the ball \ Checkpoint 4: Ensure general weight and size parameters conform with NFL standards ____________________________________________________________________________ |
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