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

该奖项将支持教授理查德Shiavi的范德比尔特 与Antonio Pedotti教授进行研究合作 位于意大利米兰的Centro di Bioingegneria。 的目的 这项研究将联合收割机结合两个中心的专业知识， 来研究和分析人类的运动 研究人员 计划开发几个步态分析程序，一个单一的 实验室环境将利用电流测量 技术、分析程序和交互式图形 接口。 运动的电机控制的广泛适应性使得 双足运动非常灵活，但因此， 其调查极为困难。 根据方面 步态被调查，一些组合的肌电图， 需要运动学和动力学测量。 Shiavi教授 开发了几种分析肌肉活动的技术， 米兰的研究人员已经开发出一种程序来分析 运动动力学和研究运动控制。 通过组合 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定量的 步态评估中有用的分析工具。

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.