We are hoping to create our own exercise machine for a research in which we need to program the bike to fit our custom resistance pattern that would change over short time intervals. Our outcome measure, or performance measure, is RPM. We will tell the subject that their goal is maintain a certain RPM (e.g. 40 revolutions per minute), and that's all they know. Behind the scenes, we want to be able to apply a resistance pattern and there should be flexibility so that we can program any resistance pattern we want. For example, one resistance pattern could be something like this:
1 kg --> 5 kg --> 7 kg --> 2 kg --> 10 kg --> 4 kg, etc. and keep repeating this pattern during a trial, with each interval (-->) lasting 1 minute ( or any period we decide).
Here are my questions:
Can we use a microcontroller & program it with Labview to for this to read the electromagnetic resistance?
Should we build a new hardware or can we use any bike like SCIFIT, take the circuit board out and use our own MC
