Honors Theses

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Department

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Degree

Bachelor of Science

Major

Industrial Engineering

Document Type

Honors Thesis

Abstract

Motion capture is being used to analyze the pitching motion of Mississippi State’s softball pitchers. The motion capture requires that the athletes be covered in clusters of reflective markers for the cameras to track their movement. The current cluster responsible for tracking the pitching hand of a softball player is continually being destroyed as the outer edge of the pitcher’s hand and the cluster contact her thigh. A new cluster was designed to only cover a small portion of the back of the hand, which eliminated the risk of breaking the cluster during pitching. The hand cluster was produced using an SLA 3D printer with flexible tough resin that lowered the cost, production time, and weight of the cluster compared to the original. In addition to each of those improvements, the number of pitches before breaking increased by over 1500% from 10.5 pitches to 172.

Publication Date

5-1-2022

First Advisor

Burch, Reuben

Second Advisor

Smith, Brian

Third Advisor

Farmer, Angela

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