Muscular Effort for the Characterization of Human Postural Behaviors
Muscular Effort for the Characterization of Human Postural Behaviors
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用于表征人类姿势行为特征的肌肉力量
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-23778-7_45
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发表时间:
2016
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作者:
Demircan;E.;Murai;A.;Khatib;O.;and Nakamura;Y.
The human selection of specific postures among the infinity of possibilities is the result of a long and complex process of learning. Through learning, humans seem to come to discover the properties of their bodies and how best to put them to use when performing a task. Exploiting the body’s kinematic characteristics, humans effectively use the body’s mechanical advantage to improve the transmission of the muscles’ tension into the forces the task requires. However, the efficiency of this transmission is also affected by the human muscle actuation physiology and dynamics. By also adjusting the body configurations to maximize this transmission of muscle tensions to resulting task forces, humans are in fact exploiting what can be termed the physiomechanical advantage of their musculoskeletal system. Here, we investigate the physiomechanical advantage of humans through several experimental validations. Based on the results of the analysis, we conclude that in learned tasks the optimization of the physiomechanical advantage corresponds to the overall minimization of the human muscular effort. The approach presented here can be applied for the motion control of human musculoskeletal models where the control is task-driven and the task consistent postures are driven by the muscular criteria.