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Joint moments and muscle forces during walking with sided load as one of activities of daily living (편향하중 조건 보행시 인체의 적응 작용에 대한 분석)

  • Kim, Hyun-Dong;Son, Jong-Sang;Kim, Han-Sung;Kim, Young-Ho;Lim, Do-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.1709-1712
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    • 2008
  • The trunk is inclined to the loaded side when carrying an object as one of activities of daily living. As the reaction to this behavior the human body may be inclined to his/her trunk to unloaded side. The present study investigated the biomechanical effects of weight variation for sided load carriage during walking upon joint moments and muscle torques, through the tracker agent and joint driving dynamic analysis. To perform the experiment one male was selected as subject for the study. Gait analysis was performed by using a 3D motion analysis system. Thirty nine 14mm reflective markers, according to the plug-in marker set, were attached to the subject. We used BRG.LifeMOD(Biomechanics Research Group, Inc., USA), for skeletal modeling and inverse and joint driving dynamic simulation during one gait cycle. In walking with a sided load carriage, the subject modeled held the carriage with the right hand, which weighed 0, 5, 10, 15kg, 20kg respectively. The result of this simulation showed that knee and hip in the coronal plane were inclined to the loaded side and loaded side had larger moments as the sided load carriage was increased. On the other hand thoracic and lumbar in the coronal plane had larger negative values as the sided loaded carriage was increased. The thoracic and lumbar in the transverse plane also had larger values as the sided load was increased. And the several muscles of loaded side were increased as increasing sided load. It could be concluded that human body is adopted to side loaded circumstances by showing more biologic force. These results could be very useful in analysis for delivery motion of daily life.

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A stable composite controller design for flexible joint robot manipulators (탄성관절을 갖는 로보트 매니퓰레이터의 안정한 합성제어기 설계)

  • 이만형;백운보;이권순;배종일
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10a
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    • pp.266-271
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    • 1992
  • This paper presents a new stable composite control law for the flexible joint robot manipulators, which incorporate the additional stabilizing control law with sliding property. The singularly perturbated models include inertia moments functions of the deformations of actuator. The newly defined fast controller variable is computed from the corrected reduced-order model without additional computational loads. The simulations for 2 DOF flexible joint manipulator show that the proposed schemes are more stable than conventional one, and especially effective for the manipulator with high joint-flexibilities.

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Vibration response of the boat composite shafting having constant velocity joint during change of the operation regime

  • Shuripa, V.-A;Kim, J.-R;Kil, B.-L;Kim, Y.-H;Jeon, H.-J
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.382-392
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    • 2004
  • The usage of constant velocity (CV) joint is effective for motorboats on gliding regime of the motion. During transition on the gliding when angle of the CV differs from null on driving and driven composite shafts there are moments of the second order. Excitation of oscillations of the second order moments occurs when driving shafts transmits a variable torque. which generates through CV joint a lateral moment acting on the bearing. As a result of oscillations from a resonating harmonic of a shafting the harmonic with the greater or periodically varying amplitude for power condition trough transferring to nominal power 144kW. Beating conditions coincide with third mode having frequency 45.486 Hz. In that case there is high increasing of the equivalent stresses. The forming of the stiffness of the composite material is concerned to use most orientation of the layer angle in the range of $\pm$60 degrees relatively of shaft axis. Application of that angles for layer orientation gives possibility to avoid high disturbance of the shafting for motorboat transition regime.

Biomechanical Alterations in Gait of Stair Decent with Different Treads during Pregnancy (임신기간 중 계단의 단너비에 따른 임산부 양발 보행의 생체역학적 변화)

  • Hah, Chong-Ku
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.205-215
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate alterations of pregnant gait by means of 3 different treads of stairs. 9 subjects(body masses; $59.41{\pm}7.49$, $64.03{\pm}6.65$, $67.26{\pm}7.58$, heights; $160.50{\pm}6.35$ ages; $31.22{\pm}2.99$; parity; $1.67{\pm}0.71$) participated in three experiments that were divided by physiological symptoms(the early(0-15 weeks), middle(16-27 weeks) and last(18-39 weeks), and walked at self-selected pace on 4 staircases 3 trials. As extending the pregnancy period, cadence was shorter but cycle time was longer more and more and the difference of maximum and minmum moments between right and left knee joint moment was smaller. With the treads of stair decent lengthening, speed and stride lengths were increased. As extending the treads of stair decent, joint moments of both feet were particular traits, hip joint was asymmetric but joint moments of knee and ankle were symmetric. These findings may account for relation between the treads of stair and moments and suggest that women may adapt their gait to maximize stability and to control gait motion for themselves in pregnant women.

Analysis of Lower Extremity Joint Moment and Power during Squat in Female Patients with Genu Varum

  • Jeong, Ji-Man;Lim, Bee-Oh
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.407-412
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    • 2016
  • Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze the net joint moment and joint power of the lower extremity during squat in female patients with genu varum. Method: Eight female patients with genu varum were asked to do regular squats, and their net joint moment and joint power were compared to those of another eight female participants with straight legs. Their video recordings and ground reaction force data were analyzed to be used as a theoretical evidence of squatting effectively for female patients with genu varum. Results: Squats had a higher impact on internal knee joint rotation and ankle joint flexion moments in the genu varum group than in the straight leg group due to their weak and short hip joint muscles. Conclusion: There is a need to develop a squat movement that is appropriate for women with genu varum in order to distribute overload efficiently among the hip, knee, and ankle joints and to strengthen the muscles in a balanced way.

Two-Dimensional Probability Functions of Morphological Dilation and Erosion of a Memoryless Source

  • Sangsin Na;Park, Tae-Young
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.151-155
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    • 1996
  • This paper derives the two-dimensional probability distribution and density functions of morphological dilation and erosion of a one-dimensional memoryless source and reports numerical results for a uniform source, thus providing methodology for joint distributions for other morphological operations. The joint density functions expressed in closed forms contain the Dirac delta functions due to the joint discontinuity within the dilation and erosion. They also exhibit symmetry between these two morphological density functions of dilated and/or eroded sources, in the computation of other higher moments thereof, and in multidimensional quantization.

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An Inverse Dynamic Analysis of Lower Limbs During Gait (보행 중 하지 관절의 역동역학 해석)

  • 송성재
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.301-307
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    • 2004
  • An inverse dynamic model of lower limbs is presented to calculate joint moments during gait. The model is composed of 4 segments with 3 translational joints and 12 revolute joints. The inverse dynamic method is based on Newton-Euler formalism. Kinematic data are obtained from 3 dimensional trajectories of markers collected by a motion analysis system. External forces applied on the foot are measured synchronously using force plate. The use of developed model makes it possible to calculate joint moments for variation of parameters.

Evaluation of torsional natural frequencies for non-tubular bonded joints

  • Pugno, Nicola;Ruotolo, Romualdo
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.91-101
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    • 2002
  • During the last several years, research activity on non-tubular bonded joints has concentrated on the effects of normal stress, bending moments and shear. Nevertheless, in certain situations, the structure may be subjected to twisting moments, so that the evaluation of its dynamic behaviour to torsional vibrations becomes of great importance even though evaluations of such loading conditions is entirely lacking in the literature. The aim of this article is to show that torsional natural frequencies of the non-tubular joint can be evaluated by determining the roots of a determinantal equation, derived by taking advantage of some analytical results obtained in a previous paper dealing with the analysis of the state of stress in the adhesive. Numerical results related to clamped-free and clamped-clamped joints complete the article.

Moments of the ruin time and the total amount of claims until ruin in a diffusion risk process

  • Kim, Jihoon;Ahn, Soohan
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.265-274
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we consider a diffusion risk process, in which, its surplus process behaves like a Brownian motion in-between adjacent epochs of claims. We assume that the claims occur following a Poisson process and their sizes are independent and exponentially distributed with the same intensity. Our main goal is to derive the exact formula of the joint moment generating function of the ruin time and the total amount of aggregated claim sizes until ruin in the diffusion risk process. We also provide a method for computing the related first and second moments using the joint moment generating function and the augmented matrix exponential function.