Development of musculoskeletal walking simulator for analysis of human walking and rehabilitation

In the field of rehabilitation, the explanation of walking motion, called ‘Rocker function\u27, is one of the practical benchmarks for the facilitation of human walking in clinical settings. If this explanation is true, we can reconstruct it by artificial materials. In this study, we tried to develop the musculoskeletal walking simulator, which can actually reproduce bipedal walking according to the rocker function. Muscles and tendons including biarticular arrangements were represented by springs and cables. In this report, 3 muscles were actuated by servomotors. The simulator reproduced the human musculoskeletal walking motion generated from its intellectual structure in nature. The results would support the insight of the explanation of the rocker function in the rehabilitative treatments.The 2022 International Conference on Artificial Life and Robotics (ICAROB 2022), January 20-23, 2022, on line, Oita, Japa