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 …

The popularity of smart electronic products has facilitated their incorporation into various
fields related to the Human-body, such as portable tools, wearable electronics …

This article addresses an adaptive backstepping finite-time optimal formation control
problem for second-order multiagent systems (MASs) with unknown nonlinear dynamics …

Direct multiple shooting (DMS) and direct collocation (DC) are two standard transcription
methods for solving optimal control problems (OCP) in biomechanics and robotics. They …

Human-robot interaction based on real-time kinematics or electromyography (EMG)
feedback improves rehabilitation using assist-as-needed strategies. Muscle forces are …

Optimal control simulations of musculoskeletal models can be used to reconstruct motions
measured with optical motion capture to estimate joint and muscle kinematics and kinetics …

The nasopharyngeal (NP) swab sample test, commonly used to detect COVID-19 and other
respiratory illnesses, involves moving a swab through the nasal cavity to collect samples …

When estimating full-body motion from experimental data, inverse kinematics followed by
inverse dynamics does not guarantee dynamical consistency of the resulting motion …

A two-part simulation process was developed to investigate the facilitation of vertical patient
lifts with functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) in individuals with spinal cord injury …

With the global geriatric population expected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050, different assistive
technologies have been developed to tackle age-associated movement impairments. Lower …