# arm.bio # # planar arm model with six muscles # changed in May 2006 by D. Blana to include variable moment arms verbose_level 0 joint SHOULDER distal_body upperarm limits -20 130 end joint ELBOW distal_body forearm limits 0 170 end muscle default a 0.25 vmrel 10 umax 0.04 fecmax 1.5 krel 1.0 slopfac 2.0 PEEslack 1.0 time_constants 0.040 0.060 end # the values of fmax, lceopt, lslack, time_constants, and muscle paths # were taken from Klein Breteler M.D, Spoor C.W. and van der Helm F.C.T: Measuring muscle and joint # geometry parameters of a shoulder for modeling purposes, J Biomech 32: 1191-1197, 1999. # the width was set to 0.56 because there are no muscles with short fibers # and large pennation angles in this model muscle ANT_DELTOID fmax 505 lceopt 0.0898 lslack 0.0725 width 0.56 PEEslack 1.00 time_constants 0.0097 0.0418 geometry polynomial dofs SHOULDER end parameters 5 0 0.19537 2 3.021e-003 1 -2.465e-002 3 -8.522e-003 4 1.442e-003 end muscle POST_DELTOID fmax 1063 lceopt 0.0894 lslack 0.0658 width 0.56 PEEslack 1.00 time_constants 0.0264 0.0835 geometry polynomial dofs SHOULDER end parameters 4 0 0.11138 1 3.030e-002 2 -3.122e-003 3 7.965e-004 end muscle BRACHIALIS fmax 1039 lceopt 0.0738 lslack 0.0392 width 0.56 PEEslack 1.20 time_constants 0.0120 0.0476 geometry polynomial dofs ELBOW end parameters 5 0 0.13774 1 -1.438e-002 2 1.659e-003 4 1.963e-003 3 -7.811e-003 end muscle TRICEPS_SH fmax 1144 lceopt 0.0691 lslack 0.1706 width 0.56 PEEslack 1.20 time_constants 0.0120 0.0476 geometry polynomial dofs ELBOW end parameters 2 0 0.21641 1 1.925e-002 end muscle TRICEPS_LH fmax 1129 lceopt 0.1075 lslack 0.2153 width 0.56 PEEslack 1.20 time_constants 0.0120 0.0476 geometry polynomial dofs SHOULDER ELBOW end parameters 4 0 0 0.30839 1 1 -3.817e-018 0 1 1.965e-002 1 0 2.310e-002 end muscle BICEPS fmax 347 lceopt 0.1292 lslack 0.170 width 0.56 time_constants 0.0159 0.0572 geometry polynomial dofs SHOULDER ELBOW end parameters 6 0 0 0.36026 1 1 4.219e-006 0 1 -8.414e-003 1 0 -2.294e-002 0 4 7.234e-004 0 2 -1.087e-002 end end