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Assessment of two-dimensional induced accelerations from measured kinematic and kinetic data
1Institute of Human Movement Science, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. a.l.hof@med.rug.nl
Abstract:
A simple algorithm is presented to calculate the induced accelerations of body segments in human walking for the sagittal plane. The method essentially consists of setting up 2x4 force equations, 4 moment equations, 2x3 joint constraint equations and two constraints related to the foot-ground interaction. Data needed for the equations are, next to masses and moments of inertia, the positions of ankle, knee and hip. This set of equations is put in the form of an 18x18 matrix or 20x20 matrix, the solution of which can be found by inversion. By applying input vectors related to gravity, to centripetal accelerations or to muscle moments, the 'induced' accelerations and reaction forces related to these inputs can be found separately. The method was tested for walking in one subject. Good agreement was found with published results obtained by much more complicated three-dimensional forward dynamic models.
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