Digital Biomechanics
NATICK SOLDIER SYSTEMS CENTER
Digital Biomechanics™ is the first physics-based human simulation to model equipment on soldiers engaged in actual tasks, from walking, running, and crawling to completing a virtual obstacle course. This technology uses robot-control technology and physics-based models to provide human simulation that obey the same laws of locomotion, balance, and loading as real people do in the physical world.
Applications
- Military and Commercial Significance:
- Researchers at the U.S. Army’s Research Institute for Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) and Natick Soldier Center is using Digital Biomechanics™ to improve the design process for helmets, body armor,
- backpacks, and other warrior equipment. It is used to assess the impact of prototype designs on soldier performance before building physical mock-ups and testing on live soldiers, thereby shortening design/
- test cycles and reducing design costs and risk to personnel.
- Digital Biomechanics™ is currently used
- by a variety of customers, both military
- and commercial. Sony Corporation is using
- Digital Biomechanics™ to engineer
- advanced behavior in its humanoid
- entertainment robots. Sarcos Corporation
- is relying on Digital Biomechanics™ to
- design and analyze an advanced robotic
- exoskeleton being funded by the Defense
- Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Provenance
- Original
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