Tom it's a pleasure to meet you. I've come kitted out in Derby attire. What
have you got for me? Okay so this afternoon we're going to
do a 3D motion capture, so analysing using our Vicon Motion
Capture System to analyse your pedalling techniques. You're going to
do some cycling over there on the watt bike
and we're going to analyse the way in which your limbs moving hopefully find
out that you you've got a decent cycling technique.
Well fingers crossed on the next Chris Hoy.
Now I've noticed those things behind me here which looks like something I've
seen on TV before. Yeah so these are just retro reflective
markers so they take the infrared image from the
cameras that you can see around the top of us.
They'll reflect that back to the camera and we will use that on the screen to
kind of map your body in three dimensions so we can measure angles,
how fast your legs are moving. Oh wow, so this is almost like video
capture but instead of using a video camera you're using sensors that you can
actually make. Exactly so it's exactly the same as kind
of animation films would be so things like Harry Potter have used
very similar technology, we just apply that in a very different way to
kind of a bit more specifically to analyse the detail in the way you move
rather than to recreate characters. So let's take a football game on a PS4.
Exactly the same that's how you recreate Cristiano
Ronaldo. Exactly so it'd be the same markers they would just utilise the
software in a little bit, a little bit differently whereas we
would use it for the specific finer details to
calculate angles and be able to tell you kind of this is what's good,
this is kind of what we could improve to make you better at cycling or
reduce the risk of injury. And to be clear I don't have anything like this at
school. No this isn't normal, is it this isn't
normal this is kind of you'd typically only find this in sports labs
or in universities really. So this is something really special that
double university has yeah absolutely. I couldn't tell you how many there
are in the country but there's there's not many
icon motion capture systems used in this way in the country now.
Well I'm going to put these on screen. Let's get started.
Okay so all I'm going to do is try and recreate your
skeleton yes so I'm going to kind of we're only going to focus on the lower
body cycling's lower body so I'm going to put
them feet, legs and and up to your hips and then we'll
recreate you on the bike okay. Okay Tom I think I'm pretty much
sensored up, what's next? Okay so let's go over to the bike now
then we can do a static calibration and get you onto the bike and analyse
your technique. Let's do it. So we've fitted that marker set to your
body and that should now look like a set of legs
moving around the screen as opposed to all those dots, so we know
now that that marker set is is you the next step is to put you on the bike
and get some pedalling done. Right Radzi what we're going to do then is
analyse your pedalling technique but I want this to not be a warm up
so we're going to get you to crank it up a little bit. Okay. Okay so let's go,
okay Kyle off we go.
Okay relax for me, brilliant.
I actually can't wait to see this. Okay so should we have another go we'll do
another trial. Okay so this is tiring by the way.
Okay so hold it steady there for me that's good.
Okay I'm relaxing. Brilliant and that's all we really need.
Perfect we can put some results up on the screen for you.
So what we'll do now is we've got those kind of raw
footage we'll just model that very quickly and then we can work out some
angles. So Tom I understand the data's in and
have I made the next Olympic Games? Well not quite
Radzi, you're not far off. So we're looking at your left knee angle
here and what we'd expect it to be is
somewhere at the bottom of the pedal stroke so if I put the screen in the
right place we'd expect that to be somewhere between
25 and 40 degrees of knee flexion. You're actually there at 39.2 degrees so
you've just squeaked into the ideal pedalling technique so Chris Hoy he
needs to watch out because there could be another man after
his legacy perhaps, and in terms of my right knee how are we
looking there? Your right knee is also within the 25 to 40
so if we put it down to the bottom of the pedal stroke there
we can see that that's at 35.8 degrees. So well inside so there's a
little, a little bit of work to do on the left,
side, the right leg not quite so good. You know what I do have to ask is
obviously you've been very kind in showing us just
some of the facilities here but how impressive
is this for any people that come to study here? Yeah this this is an amazing
facility for us so it's kind of multi-purpose and
we use it primarily for for teaching, so things like strength and
conditioning, biomechanics, performance analysis,
all get taught in here so less lectures more kind of
practical teaching space. We have something called the Human Performance
Unit which is our external facing business so we get kind of elite level
amateur athletes and we do sports science services to help them improve
whether that's cycling, running, golf and then finally
as a student coming to the university it's also used for Team Derby
performance sport. So some of the athletes actually get to
train in this space and use it to kind of
improve their performance while they're with us at the uni. So not only do the
students get to learn from it for their own expertise
but other students who can benefit from them get exactly the same thing.
Exactly, so our students would work as the strength and conditioning coaches
for example, with the students who are playing the high performance sport and
it's kind of a really nice cyclical process where they all kind of
help each other out along along the way while they're here.
Tom thank you so much for your time I massively enjoyed that but as for me I
think I need to have a shower. Thanks Radzi.