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Biomechanics and Forensics

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In this monograph, various injury measures from biomechanics and forensics are used for analyzing human injury in robotics. In order to give the full picture, an overview on the most important existing injury classification metrics and biomechanical injury measures is given in this chapter.

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Haddadin, S. (2014). Biomechanics and Forensics. In: Towards Safe Robots. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 90. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40308-8_4

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