Redundant muscular force analysis of human lower limbs during rising from a squat

Yiyong Yang, Rencheng Wang, Ming Zhang, Dewen Jin, Fangfang Wu

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Abstract

Muscular coordination analysis of lower limbs during rising from a squat is one of the important categories in rehabilitation engineering and gymnastic science. This paper describes an efficient biomechanical model of the human lower limb with the aim of simulating the real human rising from a squat with lifting. To understand how intermuscular control coordinates limb muscle excitations , the optimal control technique is used to solve the muscle forces sharing problem. The validity of the model is assessed comparing the calculated muscle excitations with the registered surface electromyogramm (EMG) of the muscles. The results show that synergistic muscles are build up by the neural control signals using a minimum fatigue criterion during human squat lifting, with distinct phases mat include the acceleration during the initial movement and the posture at the final specified position. Synergistic muscular groups can be used to simplify motor control, and are essential to reduce the number of controlled parameters and amount of information needing to be analyzed in the performance of any motor act.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigital Human Modeling - First International Conference on Digital Human Modeling, ICDHM 2007. Held as Part of HCI International 2007, Proceedings
Pages259-267
Number of pages9
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
Event1st International Conference on Digital Human Modeling, ICDHM 2007 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Jul 200727 Jul 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4561 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Digital Human Modeling, ICDHM 2007
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/07/0727/07/07

Keywords

  • Human squat lifting
  • Neural control analysis
  • Redundant muscular force

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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