Citation

Nemirovsky N, Van Rooij L. Proc. IRCOBI 2010; 38: 71-84.

Affiliation

TNP Automotive

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury)

DOI

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Abstract

Active safety systems require accurate modelling of human behavior. The effect of bracing, together with an appropriate human head/neck stability control are essential in the study of pre-crash behavior and neck injury, since they can account for changes in apparent joint stiffness in the neck. In this paper a biofidelic postural control of the head and neck with co-contraction ratio is implemented. The controller is implemented in Matlab and coupled with a MADYMO human body model. A validation is performed, comparing the new controlled system with experiments with test subjects in the pitch direction.