TOMSK, Mar 16 – RIA Tomsk. The
first-year student of Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) has created automatic
system of fixing and processing of results for competitions in high-speed
sports, which is several times cheaper than foreign analogs, the press service
of the higher education institution reports on Wednesday.
"The system developed by
the first-year student of Institute of cybernetics of TPU Sergey Mirtov is
suitable for the any kinds of sport connected with high speeds: skis,
snowboard, track and field athletics, cycling. The device will define time of
passing of a distance by an athlete with an accuracy of hundredths of seconds
<…> and include estimates of judges", – it is said in the message.
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It is specified that the
system consists of four basic elements: a starting gate, the finish line fixing
end of a distance, "traffic light" showing wether the route is free,
and the control unit. Crossing of finishing line is fixed by means of a laser.
The device is capable to synchronize all data and to display them online on a
board.
According to Mirtov, he has
decided to create universal "judge" when he was convinced that
present systems of fixing isn't functional enough. "The student since the
childhood is engaged in a snowboard, and his sister Anna Mirtova performed at
the Winter Olympic Games of 2014 in Sochi in discipline slopestyle", – it
is noted in the release.
According to the developer, in
the world there are several analogs of the device. However at Tomsk development
the set of functions is much wider. "In the world there are yet no such
systems, which could not only fix time, but also instantly trace estimates of
judges. At the same time there are such sports, where not only the speed, but
also points are important", – Mirtov is quoted.
One more advantage of the
device is low cost. As the student notes, the Olympic equipment is too
expensive for the majority of the Russian youth clubs (the price starts from
100 thousand rubles). The "judge" created in TPU will cost 15-20
thousand rubles, thanks to the Russian accessories. The first-year student has
already collected a prototype of the system and has received applications for
approbation of the device from sports clubs of Tomsk.