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Subject-specific Musculoskeletal Model for Studying Bone Strain During Dynamic Motion
Published on: April 11, 2018
Adaptive velocity-based six degree of freedom load control for real-time unconstrained biomechanical testing
I M Lawless1, B Ding2, B S Cazzolato2
1Biomechanics and Implants Research Group, Medical Device Research Institute, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University, Australia.
Abstract:
Robotic biomechanics is a powerful tool for further developing our understanding of biological joints, tissues and their repair. Both velocity-based and hybrid force control methods have been applied to biomechanics but the complex and non-linear properties of joints have limited these to slow or stepwise loading, which may not capture the real-time behaviour of joints. This paper presents a novel force control scheme combining stiffness and velocity based methods aimed at achieving six degree of freedom unconstrained force control at physiological loading rates.
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