Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
April 2008
We have developed a hybrid neuromechanical joint to investigate the nonlinear properties of muscle in a physiologically relevant context. We constructed the hybrid system by connecting a live frog gastrocnemius muscle to a joint which is simulated as an inverted pendulum. We first tested this hybrid system with a spring as the actuator to ensure that the perturbation-response trajectories using living muscle would accurately describe the mechanical properties of the muscle.
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