A Trainer System for Air Rifle/Pistol Shooting

Abstract

With the immense competition in the current sports world, the technology has come in to the picture in a substantial way to outperform other competitors in the sport. But, in Sri Lanka, most of local sportsman could not gain a proper training which is backed by technology to reach international levels. This is common for the Air Rifle/Pistol shooting sport as well that has a great potential to produce Sri Lankan Olympic winners. This paper mainly addresses this lack of technological aid that can be used to assist shooters and their trainers to reach Olympic medals. In addition, we look into a trainer system solution, based on the requirements received from the shooters and trainers which consist of hardware and software components. Hardware components help to handle the physical activities of the sport and to derive inputs from the shooter. The software module is used to do the analysis of the results where performance and psychological inputs from the hardware module are analyzed and the result is displayed. In addition to these, a decision support system is integrated to the software with the intention of assisting the coaches’ decisions. The inputs derived through Infrared resource as well; also video processing techniques have been used to process the optimum positions of the movement of the hand. Further system has been tested and found optimal accuracy. Further more this paper reports that our solution will become vital to train the shooters with the usage of latest technology in the lowest cost, so that our country can triumph a gold medal in Air Rifle/Pistol shooting in Olympic Games