Reinhard Blickhan

TL;DR: The numerical model and hardware prototype together can be seen as a well-founded starting point for the development of Hill-type artificial muscles and opens up new vistas for the technical realization of natural movements with rehabilitation devices.

TL;DR: By means of so-called sledge jumps, experimentally examined the behavior of M. biceps femoris for two groups, jumpers and non-jumpers, whose task was to push the sledge with different loads and different speeds, showing a specific behavior of the muscles for each group — which seems to affect the muscle coordination and has crucial influence on the shape of the ground reaction force.

TL;DR: The layout for the microelectronic circuit of one layer in a multilayer perceptron neural network with a performance potential 1 magnitude higher than neural networks that are purely electronic based has been successfully designed.

TL;DR: A closer look on the actions of M. gastrocnemius from a geometrical point of view shows a knee angle-dependent function, and a so-called critical angle area of the knee joint, from which the shortening of the muscle leads from joint flexion to joint stretching, can be specified for the first time.

TL;DR: In macaques, coordination of leg and trunk segments for bipedal locomotion indicates a running gait with limited ability for energy storage.