• Description:

    This Ph.D. course introduces techniques for modeling of musculoskeletal systems based on multibody dynamics. The course takes a bottom-up approach beginning with kinematics of open and closed chains and ending with analysis of complex and anatomically realistic models.  The course uses the AnyBody Modeling System throughout and contains an introduction to this system.

    1. Monday: Kinematics
      1. Degrees of freedom and constraints
      2. Orientations in 3D
      3. Open and closed chains
      4. Forward and inverse kinematics
      5. The Cartesian formulation
      6. Brief intro to the AnyScript language
      7. Defining and analyzing simple kinematic models in AnyBody
      8. Introduction to redundant kinematics
      9. Motion capture-driven models
      10. Definition of force platforms
    2. Tuesday: Kinetics
      1. Dynamic equilibrium equations
      2. Forward and inverse dynamics
      3. Statically determinate and indeterminate systems
      4. Simple kinetic analysis in AnyBody
      5. Muscle recruitment
      6. Definition and analysis of simple muscle systems in AnyBody
    3. Wednesday: Muscle systems
      1. Muscle kinematics
      2. Muscle models
      3. Calibration of muscle-tendon units
      4. Creative use of muscles for balance and contact
    4. Thursday morning: Building models with the repository
      1. Repository structure
      2. Models with humans in environments
      3. Using toolbox templates
      4. Adding GRF prediction to models
    5. Thursday afternoon: Validation and verification
      1. Direct and indirect methods
      2. Validation metrics
      3. Trend validation
    6. Friday morning: Individualization of models
      1. Geometrical scaling
      2. Morphing
      3. Strength prediction
    7. Friday afternoon:
      1. Introduction of assignment

  • Each participant must bring a reasonably modern Windows laptop on which software can be installed.

  • Price: DKK 500 for non-AAU participants to cover coffee and refreshments. DKK 4000 for industrial and non-university participants.

  • Organizer: Professor John Rasmussen, e-mail: jr@mp.aau.dk

  • Lecturers: Professor John Rasmussen, Associate Professor Mark de Zee and Associate Professor Michael Skipper Rasmussen.

  • ECTS: 4

  • Time: 27-31 August 2018

  • Place: Aalborg University, Department of Materials and Produktion, Fibigerstraede 16

  • Zip code: 9220

  • City: Aalborg

  • Number of seats: 40

  • Deadline: 12 August 2018