Studies on the contractile dynamics of heart cells have attracted broad attention for the
development of both heart disease therapies and cardiomyocyte-actuated micro-robotics. In …

An empirical and theoretical study is conducted on a special actuator termed “pneumatic
muscle”(PM) being used in a force control system framework. Such an actuator has …

This study presents a new design of a wearable orthosis of elbow joint with a bimuscular
pneumatic servo-drive (PSD) with control based on the recording of bioelectric signals …

Electromyogram signals contain information for predicting muscle force that can be used in
human-machine interaction and medical applications such as the control of prosthetic …

Most of the proposed versions of the Hill's model use a sliding‐element theory, considering
a single sarcomere. However, a muscle represents a collection of different fibre types with a …

Chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) induces detrimental musculoskeletal adaptations that
adversely affect health status, ranging from muscle paralysis and skin ulcerations to …

背景: 等长肌力测试是目前肌力测定方法中较为实用的一种测试手段, 当某些关节保持一定的
位置时, 肌肉通过等长收缩, 完成等长肌力测试. 目的: 综述等长肌力测试技术的研究进展及应用 …

ABSTRACT Tomita Y, Tanino G, Mizuno S, Maeda H, Miyasaka H, Orand A, Takeda K,
Sonoda S. Development of stiffness measurement system and biomechanical model of …

The statistics literature on functional data analysis focuses primarily on flexible black-box
approaches, which are designed to allow individual curves to have essentially any shape …

Research described in this dissertation expands the use of a biomechanical
phenomenological model to a commercially available pneumatic muscle actuator (PMA) …