Use of electromyography measurement in human body modeling
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2011
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University of West Bohemia
Abstract
The aim of this study is to test the use of the human body model for the muscle activity computation. This
paper shows the comparison of measured and simulated muscle activities. Muscle active states of biceps brachia
muscle are monitored by method called electromyography (EMG) in a given position and for given subsequently
increasing loads. The same conditions are used for simulation using a human body model (Hynˇc´ık, L., Rigid Body
Based Human Model for Crash Test Purposes, EngineeringMechanics, 5 (8) (2001) 1–6). This model consists of
rigid body segments connected by kinematic joints and involves all major muscle bunches. Biceps brachia active
states are evaluated by a special muscle balance solver. Obtained simulation results show the acceptable correlation
with the experimental results. The analysis shows that the validation procedure of muscle activities determination
is usable.
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svaly, měření, elektromyografie, biofyzika
Citation
Applied and Computational Mechanics. 2011, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 67-76.