Hi, I am an upper year biomedical engineering student working on a design project for school and I could use some help. We don't really do a lot of programming in Biomedical engineering so my skills are fairly weak in the area.
I want to use an accelerometer, gyroscope and arduino and xbee to wirelessly give a read out of some useful data for weightlifting.
The design is meant to attach to the bar directly (size is not a factor at this point as long as it's reasonable, as this is a design prototype) and by doing an arm curl movement (How to Do Standing Dumbbell Curls - YouTube) get some simple data, like velocity through the movement and perhaps other useful physical data.
The data is meant to be used to be helpful in diagnosis of injury and recovery, as bar speed is fairly good indicator of muscular fatigue. As well, variations in speed during the movement could diagnose injuries like shoulder impingement. Because of this it would be used in conjunction with visual cues and thus some of the info doesn't need to be so accurate, but pretty precise.
I have about a month to finish this and have been kind of overwhelmed by the data out there on the usage of accelerometers and gyro IMU units.
Is this project feasible? What should I be really looking into? Even some guidance on good sources to find out on my own would be greatly appreciated! I am finding it hard to find more specific tutorials, guides, and general information for this project.