The Multibody Dynamics Workshop is an annual workshop jointly organised by Politecnico di Milano and Università di Parma that takes place in Italy. The PhD candidate Alessandra Favata had the opportunity to attend classes from the theoretical basis of multibody system dynamics to hands-on sessions with multibody dynamics simulation software. The speakers focused their attention on kinematics, dynamics and software simulation, with applications spreading among different fields, likewise the biomechanics.

The participation of PhD students and professors coming from different countries and studying different fields created an international and stimulating context to share ideas and learn the latest developments in the mechanical engineering field. The attendee also had the opportunity to present her research project: “ArmTracker: A state-of-the-art wearable system to assess upper limb motor function in real life conditions for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)”. She received a lot of comments and suggestions from colleagues that will help her to improve her research.