Biomechanics

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 [...]

The BIOMEC Lab participated in the 27th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, which was held in Porto (Portugal) from the 26th to the 29th of June 2022. Míriam Febrer presented a study done in collaboration with the Laboratory for Movement Biomechanics at ETH Zürich (Switzerland). The main goal of this work was to apply musculoskeletal simulations of full body and joint level mechanics to establish realistic boundary conditions for future computational investigations of total knee replacement wear. Particularly inspiring were the keynote [...]

Míriam Febrer and Josep Maria Font, from the BIOMEC Lab, have published the paper “Evaluation of Optimal Control Approaches for Predicting Active Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthosis Motion for Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury” in the journal Frontiers in Neurobotics. This research has been carried out in collaboration with B.J. Fregly from the Rice Computational Biomechanics Lab (USA), within the framework of the HYBOR project and a Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators. This study investigates whether use of a computational approach to personalize pre-defined knee trajectory parameters for an active knee-ankle-foot [...]

This annual meeting allows the different research groups to present their latest developments and encourages the presence of their youngest researchers. Moreover, several discussion forums are established between engineers and physicians and hospitals, since they are well aware of society’s needs in this field. But also, forums between the Network and industry are favoured, as they are able to develop the products that society demands.BIOMEC researchers presented a study of a device for improving the gait of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The study was developed as Paula Comas’ final degree [...]

On February 18th, the BIOMEC Lab organized a the annual meeting of the Spanish Network in Biomechanics Research. This network consists of 10 research groups in Biomechanics from all over Spain (Barcelona, Madrid, Zaragoza, Valencia, Sevilla, Badajoz, Castellón and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). The meeting took place at the Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CREB) at the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB). Each research lab presented its lines of work with the aim to create synergies for future collaborations among the groups of [...]