Neural self-organization for muscle-driven robots [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 We present self-organizing control principles for simulated robots actuated by synthetic muscles. Muscles correspond to linear motors exerting force only when contracting, but not when expanding, with joints being actuated by pairs of antagonistic muscles.
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The energy of muscle contraction. II. Transverse compression and work [PDF]
, 2020 In this study we reproduced this compression-induced reduction in muscle force through the use of a three-dimensional finite element model of contracting muscle. The model used the principle of minimum total energy and allowed for the redistribution of energy through different strain energy-densities; this allowed us to determine the importance of the ...
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Novel Functional Indices of Masticatory Muscle Activity [PDF]
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 The aim of the present study was to analyze novel functional indices of masticatory muscle activity and compare them to existing and commonly used indices in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) and healthy adults. Based on the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders, 78 adult women qualified for the study.
Michał Ginszt, Grzegorz Zieliński
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Initial fatigue of masseter muscles during the maximal voluntary teeth contraction [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2002 Fatigue of striated muscles is defined as the impossibility to generate the expected or required force during the repeated contraction. During the maximal voluntary teeth contraction in the position of central occlusion the initial fatigue in masticatory
Miljković Živorad +2 more
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Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Human Muscle For Development of Human Gait Analyzer Application [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Despite the fact that only a small portion of muscles are affected in motion disease and disorders, medical therapies do not distinguish between healthy and unhealthy muscles. In this paper, a method is devised in order to calculate the neural stimuli of the lower body during gait cycle and check if any group of muscles are not acting properly.
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Musculoskeletal Analysis Of Masticatory System Arising From Malocclusion: Literature Review [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction: The malocclusion can be defined as any change in the natural position of contact between the teeth and the arcades format that affects the morphofunctional architecture of the masticatory system of individuals affected by such condition ...
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Adaptive plasticity in the mouse mandible [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Plasticity, i.e. non-heritable morphological variation, enables organisms to modify the shape of their skeletal tissues in response to varying environmental stimuli.
Anderson, Philip S L +2 more
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Frontiers in Physiology, 2019 The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between masticatory muscular hypotrophy and mandibular growth in juvenile nonhuman primates (cynolmolgus monkeys, Macaca fasicularis).
Hak-Jin Kim +7 more
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Towards an efficient inverse static model of a Festo actuator made of two antagonist muscles for hybrid control of its position and stiffness [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The Festo air muscle is today one of the most known commercial version of the so-called McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle. A major advantage of handmade McKibben muscles, as well as its commercial versions, lies in the possibility it offers of realizing antagonist muscle actuator on the model of the biceps-triceps system.
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Cephalometric studies of the mandible, its masticatory muscles and vasculature of growing Göttingen Minipigs — A comparative anatomical study to refine experimental mandibular surgery [PDF]
, 2019 Over many decades, the Göttingen Minipig has been used as a large animal model in experimental surgical research of the mandible. Recently several authors have raised concerns over the use of the Göttingen Minipig in this research area, observing ...
Corte, Guiliano Mario +4 more
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