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Two main difficulties are presented when a study of muscle forces is carried out. First, the complexity of modeling muscle behavior. Second, the impossibility of measuring all the needed parameters in order to tune the model for a specific subject. Since the first problem has been widely studied the aim of this work is to propose a new approach to estimate muscle parameters in a non-invasive way and with no additional measure. Thus, a general methodology to estimate parameters valid for any task is proposed. A particular task is performed in order to compare different set of parameters and to validate the new approach. Results show a good agreement between the forces got with the new set of parameters and the EMG records.
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This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science as a part of project DPI2009-11792 and by the Junta de AndalucÃa as a part of Excellence Project TEP03115.
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Ojeda, J., Mayo, J. (2013). A New Approach to Estimate a Subject-Specific Set of Muscle Parameters. In: Viadero, F., Ceccarelli, M. (eds) New Trends in Mechanism and Machine Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4902-3_51
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