An EMG-driven musculoskeletal model of the human lower limb for the estimation of muscle forces and moments at the hip, knee and ankle joints in vivo
Authors
Massimo Sartori, Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padova, ItalyMonica Reggiani,
D. G. Lloyd, Musculoskeletal Research Program, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Australia
Enrico Pagello, Dept. of Inf. Eng., Univ. of Padova, Padova, Italy
Published in
The 1st Workshop on Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids (BH)2,pages 137-146, Darmstadt (Germany), 15-16 November 2010
ISBN> 978-3-00-032863-3
Abstract
This work presents the design of a novel neuromusculoskeletal model (NMS) of the human lower limb to estimate muscle forces and moments about the hip, knee and ankle joints. This research shows it is possible to use electromyographic (EMG) signals recorded from 16 muscles to drive 34 musculotendon actuators and constrain their operation to simultaneously satisfy the production of moments across several degrees of freedom (DOF) including: hip adduction-abduction, hip flexion- extension, knee flexion-extension, ankle dorsi-plantar flexion. Past research proposed the use single-DOF NMS model to estimate muscle forces and joint moments. However, these models do not properly allow muscles to operate with respect to all the DOFs associated to the joints they span. This leads to unrealistic estimations of muscle activation patterns and force production dynamics. Our proposed model was able to generate muscle forces that properly satisfied the moments generated at hip, knee and ankle joints during a variety of dynamic motor tasks.Bibtex
@inproceedings{BH22010,
Author={Sartori, M. and Reggiani, M. and Lloyd, D. G. and Pagello, E.},
Title={An {EMG}-driven musculoskeletal model of the human lower limb for the estimation of muscle forces and moments at the hip, knee and ankle joints in vivo},
Booktitle={Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids (BH)2. The 1st Workshop on},
Month=nov,
Year={2010},
Pages={137-146},
}
Author={Sartori, M. and Reggiani, M. and Lloyd, D. G. and Pagello, E.},
Title={An {EMG}-driven musculoskeletal model of the human lower limb for the estimation of muscle forces and moments at the hip, knee and ankle joints in vivo},
Booktitle={Biomechanical Simulation of Humans and Bio-Inspired Humanoids (BH)2. The 1st Workshop on},
Month=nov,
Year={2010},
Pages={137-146},
}
