Sporting Equipment Inertia Measurement Device

ICUEMOTION, San Francisco, CA, USA

ID: GIS8

Relevant Skills: dynamics, machine design, software, instrumentation

ICUEMOTION is a small lab in San Francisco that studies sports skills. Part of building a biomechanical model of the player involves having accurate measurements of the inertia of various sporting equipment. We are interested in having students build a machine which automatically finds the inertia tensor for a tennis racquet, golf club, baseball bat, etc. The solution should allow a technician to place the racquet/club/bat into the machine, the machine to perform its measurements with no human inputs, and then display the inertia tensor to the technician.