期刊
ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
卷 49, 期 1, 页码 115-128出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-020-02512-1
关键词
Finite element; Neck muscle reflex; Rear impact; Whiplash; Human body model
资金
- Chalmers University of Technology - Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
The study shows that adding active neck muscles to a human body model can improve head-neck kinematics, with importance placed on mimicking volunteer movements. Optimum gains identified through optimization can be used to describe muscle controllers in experiments.
ViVA Open Human Body Model (HBM) is an open-source human body model that was developed to fill the gap of currently available models that lacked the average female size. In this study, the head-neck model of ViVA OpenHBM was further developed by adding active muscle controllers for the cervical muscles to represent the human neck muscle reflex system as studies have shown that cervical muscles influence head-neck kinematics during impacts. The muscle controller was calibrated by conducting optimization-based parameter identification of published-volunteer data. The effects of different calibration objectives to head-neck kinematics were analyzed and compared. In general, a model with active neck muscles improved the head-neck kinematics agreement with volunteer responses. The current study highlights the importance of including active muscle response to mimic the volunteer's kinematics. A simple PD controller has found to be able to represent the behavior of the neck muscle reflex system. The optimum gains that defined the muscle controllers in the present study were able to be identified using optimizations. The present study provides a basis for describing an active muscle controller that can be used in future studies to investigate whiplash injuries in rear impacts
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