Predictive multibody dynamic simulation of human neuromusculoskeletal systems: a review

M Febrer-Nafría, A Nasr, M Ezati, P Brown… - Multibody System …, 2023 - Springer
Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in applications of multibody system
dynamics to the predictive simulation of human movement. Using predictive “what-if” human …

Human lower limb motion intention recognition for exoskeletons: A review

LL Li, GZ Cao, HJ Liang, YP Zhang… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human motion intention (HMI) has increasingly gained concerns in lower limb exoskeletons
(LLEs). HMI recognition (HMIR) is the precondition for realizing active compliance control in …

A comparison among different Hill-type contraction dynamics formulations for muscle force estimation

F Romero, FJ Alonso - Mechanical Sciences, 2016 - ms.copernicus.org
Muscle is a type of tissue able to contract and, thus, shorten, producing a pulling force able
to generate movement. The analysis of its activity is essential to understand how the force is …

Merge of motion analysis, multibody dynamics and finite element method for the subject-specific analysis of cartilage loading patterns during gait: differences between …

A Kłodowski, ME Mononen, JP Kulmala… - Multibody System …, 2016 - Springer
Understanding joint loading is important when evaluating sports training methods, sports
equipment design, preventive training regimens, post-op recovery procedures, or in …

Critical analysis of musculoskeletal modelling complexity in multibody biomechanical models of the upper limb

C Quental, J Folgado, J Ambrósio… - Computer methods in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The inverse dynamics technique applied to musculoskeletal models, and supported by
optimisation techniques, is used extensively to estimate muscle and joint reaction forces …

Simulation and design of an active orthosis for an incomplete spinal cord injured subject

JM Font-Llagunes, R Pàmies-Vilà, J Alonso, U Lugrís - Procedia IUTAM, 2011 - Elsevier
The dynamic simulation of incomplete spinal cord injured individuals equipped with active
orthoses is a challenging problem due to the redundancy of the simultaneous human …

Dynamical analysis and design of active orthoses for spinal cord injured subjects by aesthetic and energetic optimization

D García-Vallejo, JM Font-Llagunes, W Schiehlen - Nonlinear dynamics, 2016 - Springer
The dynamic analysis and simulation of human gait using multibody dynamics techniques
has been a major area of research in the last decades. Nevertheless, not much attention has …

Adaptation Strategies for Personalized Gait Neuroprosthetics

AD Koelewijn, M Audu, AJ Del-Ama… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Personalization of gait neuroprosthetics is paramount to ensure their efficacy for users, who
experience severe limitations in mobility without an assistive device. Our goal is to develop …

Design of the cooperative actuation in hybrid orthoses: a theoretical approach based on muscle models

F Romero-Sánchez, J Bermejo-García… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Hybrid orthoses or rehabilitation exoskeletons have proven to be a powerful tool for subjects
with gait disabilities due to their combined use of electromechanical actuation to provide …

Walking gait of a biped with a wearable walking assist device

Y Aoustin - International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 2015 - World Scientific
A ballistic walking gait is designed for a planar biped equipped with a wearable walking
assist device. The biped is a seven-link planar biped with two legs, two feet, and a trunk. The …