Robotic assistive devices are increasingly used in rehabilitation to reduce time and cost of the recovery process [1]. The current main challenge is to increase the involvement of the patients developing new systems able to understand patient’s intentions and adapt to his/her characteristics and needs in order to pursue a personalized rehabilitation treatment. While the cooperation to produce t...

ISBN 1-933510-96-X/$15.00  2011 CISSE Current information security education approaches tend to focus on theories and concepts. Although these conventional education strategies have their own advantages, students can also benefit from pedagogical strategies that are more interactive and scenario-driven. In particular, the current netgeneration of students are often more likely to prefer learni...

Computer simulations are playing an increasingly important role in solving complex engineering problems, and have the potential to revolutionize experimentally-based medical decision making and treatment design. Experiments alone provide important but limited understanding of movement dynamics. Although we can measure some quantities, such as muscle activities and ground reaction forces, respon...

Objectives Investigate how prescribing participant-specific joint co-ordinates during model preparation influences the measurement agreement of inverse kinematic (IK) derived unplanned sidestepping (UnSS) lower limb kinematics in OpenSim comparison to an established direct (DK) model. Design Parallel forms repeatability. Methods The UnSS 20 elite female athletes were calculated using: 1) DK (cr...

In this study, we took advantage of the emergence accurate biomechanical human hand models to develop a system in which interaction between arm and rehabilitation robot while performing planar trajectory tracking task can be simulated. Seven were based on 11-degree-of-freedom Dynamic Arm Simulation model implemented OpenSim. The was developed MatlabSimulink achieved using OpenSim API. tested by...

In this paper, recent research efforts by the authors and their research groups to develop and analyze a range of models for the human spine are discussed. These models range from rod-based models, to multibody and OpenSim-based models, and are motivated by a desire to improve our understanding of lower back pain and its treatments. These models are complimented by a new spine testing facility ...

INTRODUCTION OpenSim is an open-source musculoskeletal modeling program that uses computed muscle control (CMC) to estimate muscle excitation patterns during a particular task [1,2]. CMC determines the excitations by minimizing the weighted sum of muscle forces while reproducing the desired kinematics. With this approach, estimates of muscle excitations in populations with known muscle activati...