Biomechanics of Anthropomorphic Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Venture, Gentiane (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Laumond, Jean-Paul (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Watier, Bruno (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, 124
• Subjects: Robotics.; Automation.; Biomedical engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Bioinformatics .; Computational biology .; Robotics and Automation.; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering.; Artificial Intelligence.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.

Mechanical laws of motion were applied very early for better understanding anthropomorphic action as suggested in advance by Newton «For from hence are easily deduced the forces of machines, which are compounded of wheels, pullies, levers, cords, and weights, ascending directly or obliquely, and oth...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Should anthropomorphic systems be"redundant"?
• From Biomechanics to Robotics
• Multibody optimisations: from kinematic constraints to knee contact forces and ligament forces
• Creating personalized dynamic models
• Optimality and modularity in human movement: from optimal control to muscle synergies
• Human Movements: Synergies, Stability, and Agility
• Motor compositionality and timing: combined geometrical and optimization approaches
• Review of Anthropomorphic Head Stabilisation and Verticality Estimation in Robots
• The Physics and Control of Balancing on a Point in the Plane
• Design and Control of a passive noise rejecting Variable Stiffness Actuator
• Bipedal locomotion: a continuous tradeoff between robustness and energy-efficiency
• An overview of humanoid robots technologies.