Authors
Daichi Yamauchi, Sho Takei, Noritaka Sato, Yoshifumi Morita
Corresponding Author
Daichi Yamauchi
Available Online 1 September 2016.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2016.3.2.1How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Android model, Knee model, Human knee joint, Screw-home movement, Joint mechanism.
Abstract
This paper proposes a knee android model (Knee-AM) that can reproduce the internal-external rotation with screw-home movement (SHM) of the human knee. This rotation of the Knee-AM was realized by changing the number, lengths, and fixing points of the nylon-cords of our previous Knee-AM. Moreover, when the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was removed from the Knee-AM to imitate ligament injury, SHM did not occur during knee extension. The results show the important role played by the ACL in SHM.
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Daichi Yamauchi, Sho Takei, Noritaka Sato, Yoshifumi Morita
Corresponding Author
Daichi Yamauchi
Available Online 1 September 2016.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2016.3.2.1How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Android model, Knee model, Human knee joint, Screw-home movement, Joint mechanism.
Abstract
This paper proposes a knee android model (Knee-AM) that can reproduce the internal-external rotation with screw-home movement (SHM) of the human knee. This rotation of the Knee-AM was realized by changing the number, lengths, and fixing points of the nylon-cords of our previous Knee-AM. Moreover, when the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) was removed from the Knee-AM to imitate ligament injury, SHM did not occur during knee extension. The results show the important role played by the ACL in SHM.
Copyright
© 2013, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).