Kinematic models of the upper limb joints for multibody kinematics optimisation: An overview.

TLDR: An overview of the different upper limb models available in the literature and a discussion about their applicability to Multibody kinematics optimisation (MKO) is proposed.

About: This article is published in Journal of Biomechanics.The article was published on 2017-09-06 and is currently open access. It has received 63 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Joint constraints & Kinematics.

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Table 2: Joint models of the forearm (the MBO column indicates whether the model was initially built for multibody kinematic optimisation purposes)

Figure 4: A closed-loop kinematic chain of the shoulder

Figure 3: Shoulder girdle modelled as a parallel mechanism (Lenarcic and Stanisic, 2003)

Figure 5: Forearm joints

Figure 6 : Forearm kinematic model as proposed by Pennestrì et al. (2007)

Figure 1: Shoulder girdle anatomy

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Kinematic models of the upper limb joints for multibody kinematics optimisation: An overview Sonia Duprey, Alexandre Naaim, Florent Moissenet, Mickaël Begon, Laurence Cheze 

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Thus, major future directions should concern the evaluation and quantification of STA reduction depending on joint constraints, as well as the determination, through sensitivity studies, of the most influent parameters in the upper limb models dedicated to MBO.