Providing Appropriate Exercise Levels for the Elderly A Fuzzy System that Adjusts Cycle Ergometer Workload to Each Person's Physical Work Capacity
Tohru Kiryu, Isao Sasaki, Keisuke Shibai, Kiyoji Tanaka · 2001
The number of elderly people will greatly increase during the early 21st century in Japan. It is expected that many of these individuals intend to keep themselves healthy by exercising, and our aim is to provide appropriate exercise levels for them. The appropriate exercise level varies for each elderly person because there are great individual differences (e.g., chronic illness and degeneration of athletic capabilities). Hence, various biosignals should be detected and analyzed, and the feedback from this information should be used effectively to control the workload. Assessing physical work capacity during periods of dynamic exercise is impor