On the modeling of biomechanical systems for human movement analysis: a narrative review

I Roupa, MR da Silva, F Marques… - … Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
The rising importance of movement analysis led to the development of more complex
biomechanical models to describe in detail the human motion patterns. The models scaled …

OpenCap: Human movement dynamics from smartphone videos

SD Uhlrich, A Falisse, Ł Kidziński… - PLoS computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Measures of human movement dynamics can predict outcomes like injury risk or
musculoskeletal disease progression. However, these measures are rarely quantified in …

OpenSim: Simulating musculoskeletal dynamics and neuromuscular control to study human and animal movement

A Seth, JL Hicks, TK Uchida, A Habib… - PLoS computational …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Movement is fundamental to human and animal life, emerging through interaction of
complex neural, muscular, and skeletal systems. Study of movement draws from and …

Individualization of exosuit assistance based on measured muscle dynamics during versatile walking

RW Nuckols, S Lee, K Swaminathan, D Orzel… - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Variability in human walking depends on individual physiology, environment, and walking
task. Consequently, in the field of wearable robotics, there is a clear need for customizing …

Is there really an eccentric action of the hamstrings during the swing phase of high-speed running? Part I: a critical review of the literature

B Van Hooren, F Bosch - Journal of sports sciences, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
It is widely assumed that there is an eccentric hamstring muscle fibre action during the swing
phase of high-speed running. However, animal and modelling studies in humans show that …

Full-body musculoskeletal model for muscle-driven simulation of human gait

A Rajagopal, CL Dembia, MS DeMers… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Musculoskeletal models provide a noninvasive means to study human movement
and predict the effects of interventions on gait. Our goal was to create an open-source 3-D …

Rapid predictive simulations with complex musculoskeletal models suggest that diverse healthy and pathological human gaits can emerge from similar control …

A Falisse, G Serrancolí, CL Dembia… - Journal of The …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Physics-based predictive simulations of human movement have the potential to support
personalized medicine, but large computational costs and difficulties to model control …

Is my model good enough? Best practices for verification and validation of musculoskeletal models and simulations of movement

JL Hicks, TK Uchida, A Seth… - Journal of …, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Computational modeling and simulation of neuromusculoskeletal (NMS) systems enables
researchers and clinicians to study the complex dynamics underlying human and animal …

Opensim moco: Musculoskeletal optimal control

CL Dembia, NA Bianco, A Falisse… - PLOS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Musculoskeletal simulations are used in many different applications, ranging from the
design of wearable robots that interact with humans to the analysis of patients with impaired …

Improving the energy economy of human running with powered and unpowered ankle exoskeleton assistance

KA Witte, P Fiers, AL Sheets-Singer, SH Collins - Science Robotics, 2020 - science.org
Exoskeletons that reduce energetic cost could make recreational running more enjoyable
and improve running performance. Although there are many ways to assist runners, the best …