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Project: Speed regulation of humans running in hilly terrain 
Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) (APAI) Scholarship student, Andrew Townshend, is using the cardiomobile monitoring system to learn more about the regulation of speed and energy expenditure in running, and to push the boundaries of physiological and performance data collection outside the laboratory.
His project focuses on running in hilly terrain, as this puts a premium on optimising the rate of energy expenditure through the control of running speed. Learning how humans accomplish this has required several steps:
- Validating the use of miniature non-differential GPS for measuring locomotion speed in humans.
- Laboratory studies to measure aerobic capacity, ventilatory threshold, cadence and stride length.
- Field studies with runners collecting expired gas, ECG, GPS and accelerometry data to discover how speed is regulated to cope with varying gradients.
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