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Senior Project Proposal

Martial sports are a paradox – a compromise between safety and accuracy, especially when weapons-based martial arts are the basis for a martial sport. Weapons by their nature are dangerous and every step taken to make them more safe changes their essential characteristics. By design, safe weapon simulators make it less obvious when a fight-ending injury would have occurred. Thus, it is difficult to assess in martial sport how much the martial art is being applied and practiced. Using technology, this project hopes to address that problem. This project will take a European Longsword simulator and integrate an embedded system that will detect and report martially sound strikes. This system will filter out parries and contact too light to be considered valid while assessing the quality of a true strike. As such our system must be rugged and prepared for taking impacts. Our goal is to contain the entire system within the sword simulator while disturbing its handling as little as possible.