- Docente: Marco Viceconti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/34
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Marco Viceconti (Modulo 1) Giorgio Davico (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 5724)
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from Feb 19, 2024 to Jun 03, 2024
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from Feb 19, 2024 to Jun 03, 2024
Learning outcomes
Students will acquire a basic preparation that allows them to design experiments, design measures and discuss the results of the analysis of human motor function, with particular attention to orthopaedic pathologies and treatments. They will acquire fundamental elements of a series of methods for measuring the global function and specific performance of individual reconstructive implants of anatomical structures, as well as techniques for designing these implants. The analyses concern intra- and post-operative evaluations.
Course contents
Starting this year, the course "Biomechanics of Motor Function" resumes, focusing on all aspects of biomechanics of human movement. The contents of the course this year will be:
- Fundamentals of movement physiology
- Motor control
- Methods for measuring movement
- Wearable sensors in clinical trials
- Modelling of motor function
- Modelling of suboptimal control
- Credibility of movement dynamics models
- Clinical applications of movement dynamics models
Readings/Bibliography
Latash, M. L. Fundamentals of Motor Control. Academic Press, ISBN: 978-0124159563.
Teaching methods
The course is organised in two components: live lectures for frontal teaching and a hands-on computer modelling laboratory with state-of-the-art software (OpenSIM).
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
To guarantee a practical understanding of the modelling techniques covered by the course, the exercises must all be delivered before taking the exam and recording the grade. They can contribute in a small part to the final grade.
Given the advanced nature of the course, the contents of which change every year according to the evolution of research in the sector, attendance at lectures and tutorials is strongly recommended.
Teaching tools
OpenSim for modeling the dynamics of human movement
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Marco Viceconti
See the website of Giorgio Davico
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.