Development of next-generation musculoskeletal model considering volume and deformation of the muscles

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24650383
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (2014); The University of Tokyo (2012-2013)
• Principal Investigator: HIRASHIMA Masaya 独立行政法人情報通信研究機構, 脳情報通信融合研究センター 脳情報通信融合研究室, 主任研究員 (20541949)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 筋骨格モデル / バイオメカニクス / 筋ボリューム / 筋形状

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Currently available musculoskeletal models ignore volume and deformation of the muscles; therefore they cannot accurately reproduce muscles’ line of action around the complex joints such as the shoulder. The present study developed a prototype of the next-generation musculoskeletal model considering muscle volume by reducing the computational burden for computing the muscle shape using GPU (Graphic processing Unit) parallel computing method.

Free Research Field

バイオメカニクス