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Author Abdel-Malek, Karim, author.

Title Human motion simulation : predictive dynamics / Karim A. Abdel-Malek, Jasbir Singh Arora
Published Waltham, MA : Elsevier/Academic Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 275 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Contents Introduction -- Human modeling : kinematics -- Posture prediction and optimization -- Recursive dynamics -- Predictive dynamics -- Strength and fatigue : experiments and modeling -- Predicting the biomechanics of walking -- Predictive dynamics : lifting -- Validation of predictive dynamics tasks -- Concluding remarks
Summary "Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction. With this approach, motion is governed by human performance measures, such as speed and energy, which act as objective functions to be optimized. Constraints on joint torques and angles are imposed quite easily. Predicting motion in this way allows one to use avatars to study how and why humans move the way they do, given specific scenarios. It also enables avatars to react to infinitely many scenarios with substantial autonomy. With this approach it is possible to predict dynamic motion without having to integrate equations of motion -- rather than solving equations of motion, this approach solves for a continuous time-dependent curve characterizing joint variables (also called joint profiles) for every degree of freedom"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from resource home page (ebrary, viewed January 20, 2016)
Subject Motion study.
Movement, Psychology of.
Human locomotion.
Computer simulation.
Digital computer simulation.
Motion.
Computer Simulation
Motion
Time and Motion Studies
simulation.
motion.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
Motion
Digital computer simulation
Computer simulation
Human locomotion
Motion study
Movement, Psychology of
Form Electronic book
Author Arora, Jasbir S., author.
ISBN 9780124046016
0124046010
1299642241
9781299642249
Other Titles Predictive dynamics