U.S.-Italy Cooperative Research: Dynamics of Human Locomotion and Motor Control

美意合作研究：人体运动动力学和电机控制

• 批准号: 8915077
• 负责人: Richard Shiavi
• 金额: $ 1.56万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-05-01 至 1993-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8915077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Italy; Cooperative; Research; Dynamics

This award will support Prof. Richard Shiavi of Vanderbilt University in a research collaboration with Prof. Antonio Pedotti of the Centro di Bioingegneria in Milan, Italy. The purpose of the research is to combine the expertise at both centers in order to investigate and analyze human locomotion. The researchers plan to develop several gait analysis procedures for a single laboratory environment that would utilize current measurement techniques, analytic procedures, and interactive graphical interfaces. The extensive adaptability of motor control of locomotion makes bipedal locomotion extremely versatile, but consequently, makes its investigation extremely difficult. Depending upon the aspect of gait being investigated, some combination of electromyographic, kinematic, and dynamic measurements are required. Prof. Shiavi has developed several techniques for analyzing muscle activity while researchers in Milan have developed procedures to analyze the dynamics of locomotion and study motor control. By combining these techniques and procedures, the researchers intend to develop and make available to researchers and clinicians quantitative analytic tools useful in gait evaluation.

该奖项将支持范德比尔特大学的Richard Shiavi教授与意大利米兰Bioingegneria中心的Antonio Pedotti教授开展研究合作。这项研究的目的是结合两个中心的专业知识，以调查和分析人类的运动。研究人员计划为单一的实验室环境开发几种步态分析程序，这些程序将利用当前的测量技术、分析程序和交互式图形界面。电机控制对运动的广泛适应性使两足运动具有极大的通用性，但也因此使其研究变得极其困难。根据正在研究的步态的不同方面，肌电、运动学和动态测量的一些组合是必需的。夏维教授开发了几种分析肌肉活动的技术，而米兰的研究人员则开发了分析运动动力学和研究运动控制的程序。通过结合这些技术和程序，研究人员打算开发并向研究人员和临床医生提供在步态评估中有用的定量分析工具。