Running training machine with the virtual reality system and its mode of work

Abstract

Disclosed is training equipment made for developing and strengthening muscles or joints with exercises to overcome the opposing force with or without measuring instruments; also person's movements in a virtual reality modeling system. The invention is a complex which consists of an originally constructed running training machine adapted to the current task and having two degrees of freedom at least, hardware and software equipment realizing the functions of user's positioning by controlling both the movement of the treadmill track and the slopes of the treadmill, depending on the terrain of the virtual underlying surface. Positioning system can be built using different sensors and feedback channels. Terrain reading from a virtual model is based on a computing device generating data arrays from the underlying surface elevation field, which can be built, for example, based on photogrammetry data and providing visualization of a three-dimensional model of the world, for example, through virtual reality glasses.

1 . A treadmill with a virtual reality system, comprising a running track, a computing device that provides visualization of virtual reality, a control system, wherein the running track has at least two degrees of freedom implemented via vertical channel drives and roll drives; wherein the running track is capable of changing slopes both in longitudinal and in transverse direction, depending on a terrain in a virtual model, while control signals supply voltage to front or rear vertical channel drives when the terrain in the virtual route changes in elevation; wherein efforts on the vertical channel drives cause rotation of support levers, whereby an external force frame raises its front or rear part, and the control signals turn on power relays in a roll circuit, and voltage is supplied simultaneously, but with reverse polarity, to right and left roll drives, which leads to rotation of a movable frame when the terrain in the virtual model changes along surface curvature in the transverse direction. 
     
     
         2 . A method for simulating a movement in a virtual reality during training on a treadmill, comprising the following stages:
 choosing one of preconfigured driving modes and a virtual model;   tracking a position of a user after starting an implementation of the virtual model, wherein the user is located initially in a terminal zone disposed in central part of a belt of a running track;   changing angles of a power frame of the treadmill during implementation of the virtual model in the longitudinal and transverse directions in accordance with changes in terrain in the virtual model;   in a case of user displacement outside the terminal zone, changing an angle of inclination of the power frame and rotating a movable frame, and, if necessary, changing speed of movement of the belt in such a way that, in accordance with the virtual model, to bring the user back to the terminal zone;   after the changes in the previous stage, the control system returning positions of the power frame and the movable frame in accordance with the terrain in the virtual model.