Computer aided rehabilitation engineering (CARE) system with a walking model

Author

Hase, Kazunori ; Obinata, Goro ; Nakayama, Atsushi ; Obara, Mitsuhiro ; Adachi, Norimasa

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

228

Lastpage

229

Abstract

This paper describes a computer simulation model of human walking that seeks to improve the practicability of the simulation method for application to rehabilitation. The musculo-skeletal system was represented by a three-dimensional, 14-rigid-link model and 60 muscle models. Muscular forces were controlled by a neuronal system model consisting of 16 pairs of the neural oscillators. This simulation model was applied to investigate biomechanical relationship between walking stability and body dynamics properties. Such simulation methods will provide us with a novel computational assessment tool of human movement that we call computer aided rehabilitation engineering (CARE) system.

Keywords

biomechanics; bone; muscle; neurophysiology; patient rehabilitation; physiological models; 14-rigid-link model; biomechanical relationship; body dynamics properties; computational assessment tool; computer aided rehabilitation engineering system; computer simulation model; human walking; muscle models; muscular forces; musculo-skeletal system; neural oscillators; neuronal system model; rehabilitation; walking model; walking stability; Application software; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Force control; Humans; Legged locomotion; Muscles; Oscillators; Systems engineering and theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering, 2003. IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7943-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APBME.2003.1302666

Filename

1302666