Neuromechanics And Control Of Physical Behavior From Experimental And Computational Formulations To Bio Inspired Technologies

Author : Massimo Sartori,Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas,Alfred C. Schouten,Matthew Tresch,Yoshihiko Nakamura,Manish Sreenivasa
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889459469

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Neuromechanics and Control of Physical Behavior: from Experimental and Computational Formulations to Bio-inspired Technologies by Massimo Sartori,Francisco J. Valero-Cuevas,Alfred C. Schouten,Matthew Tresch,Yoshihiko Nakamura,Manish Sreenivasa Pdf

The term "neuromechanics" defines an integrative approach that combines the neuromuscular control and the biomechanical aspects of physical behavior in humans and animals. Crucial to this approach is a detailed description and modeling of the interaction between the nervous system and the controlled biomechanical plant. Only then do we have the broader context within which to understand evolution, movement mechanics, neural control, energetics, disability and rehabilitation. In addition to enabling new basic science directions, understanding the interrelations between movement neural and mechanical function should also be leveraged for the development of personalized wearable technologies to augment or restore the motor capabilities of healthy or impaired individuals. Similarly, this understanding will empower us to revisit current approaches to the design and control of robotic and humanoid systems to produce truly versatile human-like physical behavior and adaptation in real-world environments. This Research Topic is therefore poised at an opportune moment to promote understanding of apparently disparate topics into a coherent focus.

Author : Vincenzo Niola,Alessandro Gasparetto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030558079

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Advances in Italian Mechanism Science by Vincenzo Niola,Alessandro Gasparetto Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of IFToMM ITALY, held online on September 9-11, 2020. It includes peer-reviewed papers on the latest advances in mechanism and machine science, discussing topics such as biomechanical engineering, computational kinematics, the history of mechanism and machine science, gearing and transmissions, multi-body dynamics, robotics and mechatronics, the dynamics of machinery, tribology, vibrations, rotor dynamics and vehicle dynamics. A valuable, up-to-date resource, it offers an essential overview of the subject for scientists and practitioners alike, and will inspire further investigations and research.

Author : Juan C. Moreno,Jawad Masood,Urs Schneider,Christophe Maufroy,Jose L. Pons
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030695477

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Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends by Juan C. Moreno,Jawad Masood,Urs Schneider,Christophe Maufroy,Jose L. Pons Pdf

This book reports on advanced topics in the areas of wearable robotics research and practice. It focuses on new technologies, including neural interfaces, soft wearable robots, sensors and actuators technologies, discussing industrially and medically-relevant issues, as well as legal and ethical aspects. It covers exemplary case studies highlighting challenges related to the implementation of wearable robots for different purposes, and describing advanced solutions. Based on the 5th International Symposium on Wearable Robotics, WeRob2020, and on WearRacon Europe 2020, which were both held online on October 13-16, 2020, the book addresses a large audience of academics and professionals working in for the government, in the industry, and in medical centers, as well as end-users alike. By merging together engineering, medical, ethical and industrial perspectives, it offers a multidisciplinary, timely snapshot of the field of wearable technologies.

Author : Naser Mehrabi,John McPhee,Mohammad S. Shourijeh,Benjamin J. Fregly
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889662043

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Advances in Musculoskeletal Modeling and their Application to Neurorehabilitation by Naser Mehrabi,John McPhee,Mohammad S. Shourijeh,Benjamin J. Fregly Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Ramona Ritzmann,Christoph Centner,Alessandro Del Vecchio,Albert Gollhofer,Marco Vincenzo Narici,Nicolas Place,Stéphane Baudry
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889761197

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Neuromechanics in Movement and Disease with Physiological and Pathophysiological Implications: From fundamental Experiments to Bio-inspired Technologies by Ramona Ritzmann,Christoph Centner,Alessandro Del Vecchio,Albert Gollhofer,Marco Vincenzo Narici,Nicolas Place,Stéphane Baudry Pdf

Author : J. Middleton,M. L. Jones,G. N. Pande
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 2919875000

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Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering by J. Middleton,M. L. Jones,G. N. Pande Pdf

These papers are concerned with new advances and novel solutions in the areas of biofluids, image-guided surgery, tissue engineering and cardovascular mechanics, implant analysis, soft tissue mechanics, bone remodeling and motion analysis. The contents also feature a special section on dental materials, dental adhesives and orthodontic mechanics. This edition contains many examples, tables and figures, and together with the many references, provides the reader with invaluable information on the latest theoretical developments and applications.

Author : Reza Shadmehr,Alaa A. Ahmed
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262358705

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Vigor by Reza Shadmehr,Alaa A. Ahmed Pdf

An examination of the link between the vigor with which we move and the value that the brain assigns to the goal of the movement. Why do we reflexively run toward people we love, but only walk toward others? In Vigor, Reza Shadmehr and Alaa Ahmed examine the link between how the brain assigns value to things and how it controls our movements. They find that brain regions thought to be principally involved in decision making also affect movement vigor--and that brain regions thought to be principally responsible for movement also bias patterns of decision making.

Author : Paavo Komi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781405140591

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Strength and Power in Sport by Paavo Komi Pdf

The second edition of this broadly based book continues to examine and update the basic and applied aspects of strength and power in sport from the neurophysiology of the basic motor unit to training for specific activities. Authorship is, again, international and includes leading physiologists and clinicians.

Author : Sundararajan Madihally
Publisher : Artech House
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781630817121

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Principles of Biomedical Engineering, Second Edition by Sundararajan Madihally Pdf

This updated edition of an Artech House classic introduces readers to the importance of engineering in medicine. Bioelectrical phenomena, principles of mass and momentum transport to the analysis of physiological systems, the importance of mechanical analysis in biological tissues/ organs and biomaterial selection are discussed in detail. Readers learn about the concepts of using living cells in various therapeutics and diagnostics, compartmental modeling, and biomedical instrumentation. The book explores fluid mechanics, strength of materials, statics and dynamics, basic thermodynamics, electrical circuits, and material science. A significant number of numerical problems have been generated using data from recent literature and are given as examples as well as exercise problems. These problems provide an opportunity for comprehensive understanding of the basic concepts, cutting edge technologies and emerging challenges. Describing the role of engineering in medicine today, this comprehensive volume covers a wide range of the most important topics in this burgeoning field. Moreover, you find a thorough treatment of the concept of using living cells in various therapeutics and diagnostics. Structured as a complete text for students with some engineering background, the book also makes a valuable reference for professionals new to the bioengineering field. This authoritative textbook features numerous exercises and problems in each chapter to help ensure a solid understanding of the material.

Author : R. McNeill Alexander
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400849512

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Principles of Animal Locomotion by R. McNeill Alexander Pdf

How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.

Author : Ravi Balasubramanian,Veronica J. Santos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319030173

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The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development by Ravi Balasubramanian,Veronica J. Santos Pdf

“The Human Hand as an Inspiration for Robot Hand Development” presents an edited collection of authoritative contributions in the area of robot hands. The results described in the volume are expected to lead to more robust, dependable, and inexpensive distributed systems such as those endowed with complex and advanced sensing, actuation, computation, and communication capabilities. The twenty-four chapters discuss the field of robotic grasping and manipulation viewed in light of the human hand’s capabilities and push the state-of-the-art in robot hand design and control. Topics discussed include human hand biomechanics, neural control, sensory feedback and perception, and robotic grasp and manipulation. This book will be useful for researchers from diverse areas such as robotics, biomechanics, neuroscience, and anthropologists.

Author : John Sutton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-03-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521591945

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Philosophy and Memory Traces by John Sutton Pdf

This study offers interpretations of theories of memory and the body from Descartes to Coleridge.

Author : Dieter Jäger,Ranu Jung
Publisher : Springer
Page : 3663 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 107161004X

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Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience by Dieter Jäger,Ranu Jung Pdf

The annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS) began in 1990 as a small workshop called Analysis and Modeling of Neural Systems. The goal of the workshop was to explore the boundary between neuroscience and computation. Riding on the success of several seminal papers, physicists had made "Neural Networks" fashionable, and soon the quantitative methods used in these abstract model networks started permeating the methods and ideas of experimental neuroscientists. Although experimental neurophysiological approaches provided many advances, it became increasingly evident that mathematical and computational techniques would be required to achieve a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of neural system function. “Computational Neuroscience” emerged to complement experimental neurophysiology. The Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, published in conjunction with the Organization for Computational Neuroscience, will be an extensive reference work consultable by both researchers and graduate level students. It will be a dynamic, living reference, updatable and containing linkouts and multimedia content whenever relevant.

Author : Antonio DeSimone,Benoît Perthame,Alfio Quarteroni,Lev Truskinovsky
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030451974

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The Mathematics of Mechanobiology by Antonio DeSimone,Benoît Perthame,Alfio Quarteroni,Lev Truskinovsky Pdf

This book presents the state of the art in mathematical research on modelling the mechanics of biological systems – a science at the intersection between biology, mechanics and mathematics known as mechanobiology. The book gathers comprehensive surveys of the most significant areas of mechanobiology: cell motility and locomotion by shape control (Antonio DeSimone); models of cell motion and tissue growth (Benoît Perthame); numerical simulation of cardiac electromechanics (Alfio Quarteroni); and power-stroke-driven muscle contraction (Lev Truskinovsky). Each section is self-contained in terms of the biomechanical background, and the content is accessible to all readers with a basic understanding of differential equations and numerical analysis. The book disentangles the phenomenological complexity of the biomechanical problems, while at the same time addressing the mathematical complexity with invaluable clarity. The book is intended for a wide audience, in particular graduate students and applied mathematicians interested in entering this fascinating field.

Author : Naik, Ganesh R.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466660915

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Applications, Challenges, and Advancements in Electromyography Signal Processing by Naik, Ganesh R. Pdf

"This book provides an updated overview of signal processing applications and recent developments in EMG from a number of diverse aspects and various applications in clinical and experimental research"--Provided by publisher.