Role of biarticular muscles during the swing phase of walking
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چکیده
Template models can help to demonstrate and prove concepts on human locomotion such as the spring-mass model [1]. Since biarticular muscles may have specific tasks in walking [2], their action during the swing phase is investigated in this study. A new model is presented to describe the swing leg motion (Fig .1). The goal is to identify the role of elastic biarticular muscles on swing leg dynamics.
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