THE ANYBODY PROJECT – COMPUTER ANALYSIS OF THE HUMAN BODY

The AnyBody project is an initiative to enhance our understanding of the mechanics of the human body. This is accomplished by development of a software system for detailed multibody biomechanics modelling, the so-called AnyBody system. The special features of this system enable analysis of body models that are very complex in terms of number of muscles and degrees of freedom. The system handles body models with several hundred muscles, and realistic models of the entire human body are expected within a few years. This paper introduces the basic concepts of the AnyBody system with special focus on the problems of muscle recruitment and shortest-path muscle wrapping.

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