An Exercise Intensity Control by Listening Music for Emotional Fitness

Abstract

Exercises can be classified into the physical fitness, which is for the physical health care and the emotional fitness, which is for the mental health care. Especially in the emotional fitness, it is required that the exercise intensity is controlled naturally in contrast to mandatorily in the physical fitness. In this report, the authors propose a natural control method of the exercise intensity by movements according to rhythm of music. First, the relation between music and exercise intensities calculated by Karvonen Formula is clarified. Next, we propose a music change timing for the hart rate control based on the fuzzy PI control. Finally, usefulness of the proposed control method is verified through jogging experiments using treadmill.