MilanLab - Milanello Sport Centre

Ilmu dan Teknologi
MilanLab adalah pusat penelitian ilmiah pemain yang didirikan oleh AC Milan dengan motivasi yang kuat sejak 2002, dan termasuk di dalam Milanello Sporting Centre. Tujuannya adalah untuk mengoptimalkan kondisi fisik dan psikis para pemain dengan mempercayakan metode-metode dari MilanLab, yang mewakili kombinasi ideal ilmu pengetahuan, IT, kecerdasan buatan, dan psikologi.

Sasaran UtamaDalam perjalanannya MilanLab sangat mengkontribus hasil pertandingan tim dengan optimal. Tujuan dari kajian dan penelitian untuk membuat atlit mendapatkan performanya secara optimal, untuk mengurangi resiko cedera dan untuk mendukung keputusan staff teknis dan hirarki klub manajemen dalam perekrutan pemain.

Kondisi Pemain: Aset yang berhargaTujuan utama pendirian MilanLab adalah melindungi setiap pemain. Kondisi fisik dan psikis pemain yang baik merupakan aset bagi setiap tim sepakbola secara umum, bagi tim yang mementingkan keadaan di lapangan dari sudut pandang olahraga daripada dari sudut pandang ekonomi.

Pendekatan Sistematis: pengaturan dari kombinasi seluruh komponenMilanLab selalu melihat kedepan dalam pengembangan konsep yang menggunakan 'Visi Sistematis' dari sebuah tim sepakbola.

Apapun pengaturannya, akan menjadi sebuah kumpulan atau sebuah tim sepakbola, dapat dipandang sebagai entitas yang disusun dari berbagai sub sistem yang bekerja dalam rangkaian untuk menentukan hasil keseluruhan dari sistem utama.

Kesemua produktifitas dihasilkan dari input setiap sub-sistem yang meliputinya, untuk mengoptimakan hasilnya.

Level FungsionalAt the base of Milanlab there is a dominating vision of understanding health as a total state of physical, mental and social well-being that is dependent on the balancing of three principal functional levels: (neuro)structural, biochemical and mental that together all represent the area of participation.

(Neuro)structural area: is based on the chiropractor approach that emphasizes the intrinsic ability of the body to recover without drugs or surgical intervention.

Biochemical area: the body is considered to be a physio-chemical-biological entity, with focus on the bio-chemical changes occurring in the body during exercise.

Mental area: the study and monitoring of the psychological state of the athlete taking advantage of the Mind Room, a glassed-in facility that helps players relax and relieve stress. The mental training lasts 20 minutes and takes place after every training session. The programme enables up to eight players at a time to make use of comfortable ergonomic seats to view relaxing images while psychologists monitor their mental state via miniature electrodes fitted to the players' head which send out a signal from the scalp to a computer. Head psychologist of the Mind Room is Doctor Bruno Demichelis, the Milan psychologist who uses the facility to improve the recovery rate of the players between matches and to provide scope for them to overcome negative stress.

Artificial intelligence in the service of sportMilanLab takes advantage of the latest advanced and sophisticated software technologies available in order to collect and to process information. The system of artificial intelligence collects and processes the information, a self-taught mechanism with the ability 'to learn' through the process of memorised data which can determine which factors will cause a player to suffer an injury. The psycho-physical information regarding every player is gathered through a sophisticated system of wiring connected to the Unysis output point and supported by hardware installation supplied by AMD. At this point, a sophisticated software programme developed by Computer Associates performs neural analysis and uses artificial intelligence to transform vast amounts of numeric medical statistics into meaningful predictions through the PAS technology (Predictive Analysis Server), a system that works to predict the possible risks to the players.

Research partnershipMilanLab is a multi-disciplinary research and development project which looks to the future, taking advantage of data gained from past experience. Within this, Milanlab has developed research partnerships with the most prestigious international research centres: SENSEable City Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston (USA); The Department of Bioengineering of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and the Centre of Research in Epistemology Knowledge and Application (CRESA) of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele.