MotCo | Recommendations and participation

Our future intentions are to include all gross joints of the upper limb (shoulder, elbow and wrist) into considerations and all main muscles driving these joints. We also intend to include new optimization criteria such as: minimal co-activation; minimal time for performance of a movement, etc. We are working also on some new techniques allowing to speed up the computations and on new genetic operations and strategies for obtaining new, better generations of solutions. Since one of the input of our model is the time sequence of activation of all MUs (the so called “simulated EMG”) we intend to investigate also the dependence EMG-muscle force. The process of training and teaching will be also of our interest. Comments and recommendations are welcomed. We will be very glad if people interested in this project can share with us their results and experience. We need from data for muscle forces (muscle attachment points, regression equations for dependencies of the lever arms of the muscle forces and angles that these forces form with longitudinal axes of the bones on joint angles, physiological cross sectional areas, percentage of different type MUs, data for twitch parameters). To validate the simulated results we need data from real experiments including registration of angle displacements, velocity and accelerations as well as surface EMG signals. We will very thankful to all who can share such data with us. In return we will share our theoretical results and conclusions. Sponsors are welcomed also.