Title : MUSCULOSKELETAL MODELING AND SIMULATION OF HUMAN LOCOMOTION

Speaker :

Marcus Pandy (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, Australia)

Date : 2012.06.08. 금요일

Time : 11:00 ~ 12:00

Location : 302동 308호

Abstract

Gait analysis techniques have been used for more than a century to provide quantitative

information on the kinematics and kinetics of human locomotion, yet only recently has a

more complete understanding of muscle and joint function emerged. Rapid increases in

computing power combined with recent advances in medical imaging and more efficient

algorithms for modeling and simulation of movement have enabled more detailed

analyses of muscle and joint function. This presentation will illustrate how gait analysis

experiments and musculoskeletal modeling may be combined to describe and explain

muscle and joint function in vivo. Recent results on leg-muscle function and lower-limb

joint-contact loading during walking and running will be presented.

Marcus Pandy is appointed as Chair of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the

University of Melbourne. Dr. Pandy received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from

Ohio State University, Columbus. He then completed two years of post-doctoral work in

mechanical engineering at Stanford University, California. Prior to his current position,

he was appointed as the Joe. J. King Professor of Engineering in the Department of

Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Pandy is a Fellow of

the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Medicine and

Biology in Engineering, and the Institute of Engineers Australia.