Biomechanical analysis of subjective pinching effort based on tendon-skeletal model

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5231-5234

  Kurita, Yuichi ^a   Onoue, Takehiro ^a   Ikeda, Atsutoshi ^a   Ogasawara, Tsukasa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

BIOMECHANICAL ANALYSIS; FINGER POSTURE; FORCE TRANSMISSION; OBJECT SIZE; PINCHING MOTION; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SKELETAL MODELS; TENDON FORCES;

TENDONS;

EID: 77950987529     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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