Patent ID: 8723658

Claim:
A method of managing physical effort expended by a user of a human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit in order to manage the physical effort expended by the user, the control unit being connected to a GNSS device, the method comprising the steps of: determining firstly target values for at least one physiological value and for the effort delivered by the user, and secondly a route towards a predetermined point of arrival; acquiring information used by the control program, namely at least one geographical location of the vehicle, the physiological parameter of the user, a state of charge of the battery, an effort delivered by the motor, and the effort delivered by the user, said physiological parameter comprising one or more of the following measurements: heart rate; blood pressure; cardiac output; and body temperature; and controlling the motor as a function of the information and of the target values in such a way that over at least a portion of the route, said motor opposes the effort delivered by the user in order to achieve the target values.