Movement is fundamental to human and animal life, emerging through interaction of
complex neural, muscular, and skeletal systems. Study of movement draws from and …

Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in applications of multibody system
dynamics to the predictive simulation of human movement. Using predictive “what-if” human …

Lower-limb exoskeletons could improve the mobility of people with disabilities, older adults,
workers, first responders, and military personnel. Despite recent advances, few products are …

Deficits in the ankle plantarflexor muscles, such as weakness and contracture, occur
commonly in conditions such as cerebral palsy, stroke, muscular dystrophy, Charcot-Marie …

Humans typically coordinate their muscles to meet movement objectives like minimizing
energy expenditure. In the presence of pathology, new objectives gain importance, like …

Objectives: The development of neurorehabilitation technologies requires the profound
understanding of the mechanisms underlying an individual's motor ability and impairment. A …

Lifting is a main task for manual material handling (MMH), and it is also associated with
lower back pain. There are many studies in the literature on predicting lifting strategies …

Design has become a salient part of most of the scientific and engineering tasks, embracing
a wide range of domains including real experimental settings (eg, material discovery or drug …

The ultimate goal of most neuromusculoskeletal modeling research is to improve the
treatment of movement impairments. However, even though neuromusculoskeletal models …

We implemented direct collocation on a full-body neuromusculoskeletal model to calculate
muscle forces, ground reaction forces and knee contact loading simultaneously for one cycle …