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Prototype for Prosthesis - Biomechanical Arm



Deformation of the fascial compartments of the arm

2009 Art Hop gets a Hint of the Android

Attending the 2009 SEBA Art Hop event may be the only way of seeing the recent drawings behind the biomechanical roboticic human arm. Developing under several different project titles, the complete robotic human arm is the Creature Convention's top priority and could possibly debus in late 2012.

If you want to find out more, or are willing to contribute, please contact me by email: drSoupy@creatureconvention.com


2008 Body Worlds 2, Maryland Science Center is a Success!

A total of ten hours was spent drawing ten models, both arms, three views per arm on larger models, on twelve pages, over the course of two sessions. That material can never be shown to the public. These have to be some of the best technical medical illustrations I have seen. Every single fiber for every muscle in the arm is clearly noted from several different angles, tapering to tendon bands. The blood vessels and nerves were excluded so they would not interfere with the muscle depiction. It would have been cool if the nerves and blood vessels colored differently, like the work of Clemente Susini, 1805, so the average person could see the difference between the tissues. I would strongly recommend that any artist or doctor training in anatomy see this astounding exhibit. I was able to tear it to pieces.


Implementation of Intermuscular Septum and Antebrachial Fascia in Robotics

Nobody said that it was going to be easy. To design a perfect hum arm is to have unraveled the forces of nature. Good luck to anybody or company who attempts the imposible feat of designing a biomechinical body. Only the Creature Convention uses the most sophisticated engineering priciples.

The android of the future, being a human faximily, must be able to pick a person up over its shoulders and get them out of burning buildings alive.

It is not impossible to generate into a working unit of anatomy. Only a few simple formulas are needed to describe the full kinematic relationships between the shoulder and hand.

Myth: There are other people designing that kind of robot right now.

Fact: You got to be kidding me, do a search for android videos, and you'll see a good kick to the gut will send them down. And has anybody ever one that NASA robot arm wrestling competition? (That is a robot arm wresting a person) I would be suprised if nobody has got hurt yet.

As far as I know, I am the only person desgining a human arm.

Different sets myofibrils of fast and slow twich muscles may react at any given time, given the amount of work and resistance. Any number of fascial layers can help isolate single muscles or also give strength to groups of muscles. The articulation of bones occurs between cartiliage, membranes and fluid with other connective tissue.


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Excellent Translated Books and Articles

Age-Related Differences in Tai Chi Gait Kinematics and Leg
Muscle Electromyography: A Pilot Study
Ge Wu, PhD.
Many graduate papers exist which highlight the differences in gait between the young and the old, using Tai Chi as the control step. Tai Chi is used because all muscles in the leg, foot and thigh are activated. Ge Wu's study has the most in depth details of order and arrangement of muscle action.
Fascial Manipulation for Muscuskeletal Pain By Luigi Stecco
Myofacial sequences regard the origins and insertions of muscles in a body as a biproduct of motion. Trigger points and orders of fiber direction transmit force on the borders of bones and muscles. Pain analysis and accupuncture points are thoroghly described in this excellent book.
Quain's Elements of Anatomy By Jones Quain, Edward Sharpey-Sch�fer, George Thane
Connective tissue between joints, such as ligaments, fibro-cartilage and the joint capsule synovial membrane are discussed. Muscles, nerves, arteries, and viens follow. Great descriptions and lableled illustrations are similar in organization to the works of Henry Gray.
Memmler's The Human Body in Health and Disease By Barbara Janson Cohen
This general book of human anatomy has clear illustrations of tissue between joints. This is a good place for beginners to start their understanding of the human body.
Ergonomic Models of Anthropometry, Human Biomechanics and Operator-Equipment Interfaces: Proceedings of a Workshop, 1998 Kroemer, Snook, Meadows and Deutsh with Chair Thomas B. Sheridan
The National Reserch Council presents findings of exact ways to determine body proportions for use in military outerware and seating in combat vehicles.
Biomechanical Basis of Human Movement By Joseph Hamill, Kathleen M. Knutzen
Subjects such as motor units, length-tension relationships, and muscle actions are first in the review. The book breaks down athletic training excerses into close linked, variabale resistive, isokinetic, isometric and isotonic modalities.
Musculoskeletal Biomechanics By Paul Brinckmann, Wolfgang Frobin, Gunnar Leivseth
Vector algebra for translation and rotation of planes to determine the instantaneous center of rotation for a joint. Mechanical equilibrium, elastic deformation and shear of muscle action are taken into consideration.
Universiteit Twente, Enschede / Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Intra-, Inter- and Extramuscular Myofascial Force Transmission is a reasearch paper that combines mechanical engineering with muscular myology. Myofascial force transmission between various muscles in a rat were isolated with experiments performed on its hind leg. Force transmission from the full perimeter surface of myofibrils onto the extracellular matrix was noted in a number of experimental studies. By Can. A. Y�cesoy -PDF
Measurement of Joint Motion - A Guide to Goniometry Photographs by Jocelyn Greene Molleur and Lucia Grochowska Littlefield Illustrations by Timothy Wayne Malone -PDF







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