Development Of Self Navigator For Open Water Swimmer

Raja Shahidan, Raja Ahmad Hamezan (2019) Development Of Self Navigator For Open Water Swimmer. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, swimming is one of the sports activities that often adopted by individuals in their leisure time. This activity also is a popular exercise because it contributes all around body developer. Besides that, it also commonly used by people with physical disabilities in their therapy session. However, this activity has little risks whenever a swimmer does not have the proper equipment of swimming. One of the challenges is swimmer are difficult to keep swim on track in order to reach the destinations. This is because a slight imbalance body positioning while swimming can change the heading of the swimmer from destination point. Because of that, its cause them a little time to stop swim as the swimmer need to start lift their head in order to correct the heading direction again. This project was developed to assist a beginner swimmer to reach the destination. In this project, Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor, Ublox Neo 6-M had been used to deteimine the exact heading to the destination. Additionally, it also consists of magnetometer sensor (HMC5883L) which provide the current heading of the swimmer. This device will navigate and assist the swimmer by provides the correct heading angle to reach the destination. All of these systems are performed by Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller to calculate the distance between swimmer and destination point. It also detennines the correct heading angle to assist the swimmer reach the destination point. Finally, this project was developed to help a less-skilled swimmer in order to trained the right swimming technique.

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