Biomechanics of Anthropomorphic Systems

Foreword.- Should anthropomorphic systems be"redundant"?.- From Biomechanics to Robotics.- Multibody optimisations: from kinematic constraints to knee contact forces and ligament forces.- Creating personalized dynamic models.- Optimality and modularity in human movement: from optimal control to muscle synergies.- Human Movements: Synergies, Stability, and Agility.- Motor compositionality and timing: combined geometrical and optimization approaches.- Review of Anthropomorphic Head Stabilisation and Verticality Estimation in Robots.- The Physics and Control of Balancing on a Point in the Plane.- Design and Control of a passive noise rejecting Variable Stiffness Actuator.- Bipedal locomotion: a continuous tradeoff between robustness and energy-efficiency.- An overview of humanoid robots technologies.