A reduced muscle model and planar musculoskeletal model fit for the simulation of whole-body movements

M Millard, AL Emonds, M Harant, K Mombaur - Journal of biomechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
Musculoskeletal models are made to reflect the capacities of the human body in general,
and often a specific subject in particular. It remains challenging to both model the …

Modeling of Muscle Wrapping Phenomenon: A Geometric Method based on Tangency Constraints

I Muñoz-Pepi, N Garcia-Hernandez… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Musculoskeletal simulations have become an essential tool for surgical planning and
clinical evaluation of movement. Accurate simulations of muscle-tendon paths in …

A novel explicit analytical multibody approach for the analysis of upper limb dynamics and joint reactions calculation considering muscle wrapping

A Ruggiero, A Sicilia - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Featured Application Explicit biomechanical multibody model for the inverse dynamics of
upper limb musculoskeletal systems considering muscle wrapping. Abstract The aim of this …

Forward neuromusculoskeletal dynamics with continuous muscle wrapping

I Muñoz-Pepi, N Garcia-Hernandez… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter investigates an explicit biomechanical framework to solve forward
neuromusculoskeletal models (NMSMs), which includes muscle-tendon activation and …

A musculoskeletal multibody algorithm based on a novel rheonomic constraints definition applied to the lower limb

A Ruggiero, A Sicilia - Journal of Biomechanical …, 2022 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In this paper, a multibody model was developed in the framework of biotribology of lower
limb artificial joints. The presented algorithm performs the inverse dynamics of …

Muscle torque generator model for a two degree-of-freedom shoulder joint

S Bell - 2023 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
Muscle Torque Generators (MTGs) have been developed as an alternative to muscle-force
models, reducing the complexity of muscle-force models to a single torque at the joint …

Construction and validation under dynamic conditions of a novel thoracolumbar spine model with defined muscle paths using the wrapping method

R HIGUCHI, A KOMATSU, J IIDA, T IWAMI… - Journal of …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
We developed novel trunk musculoskeletal models with detailed muscle paths for predicting
the thoracolumbar load, and validated the developed models under dynamic loading and …

From Marker Trajectories to Muscular Activations: A Musculoskeletal Multibody Model Considering Compliant Tendon Behaviour

A Sicilia, M De Stefano, A Ruggiero - International Tribology Symposium …, 2024 - Springer
In this paper a recent development about the multibody modelling of musculoskeletal system
is presented. The authors implemented two new routines in the already developed algorithm …

Synovial Lubrication Modeling of Total Hip Replacements Using Musculoskeletal Multibody Dynamics

A Ruggiero, A Sicilia - Industrial Tribology, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Nowadays the biotribology of the human articulations is a challenging topic in the framework
of biomechanics research. A human synovial joint is a complex tribological system which is …

Fast differential-geometric methods for continuous muscle wrapping over multiple general surfaces

A Scholz - 2016 - bibliographie.ub.uni-due.de
Musculoskeletal simulation has become an essential tool for understanding human
locomotion and movement disorders. Muscle-actuated simulations require methods that …