OpenPose is a well established pose estimation. This tutorial will introduce you to to this technology, and help you better understand the basics, before you really dive into it.
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Simms Lab Research group at Trinity College Dublin
What is Biomechanics
The injury biomechanics group at TCD generally aims to understand how external forces load internal body structures, to enable design of improved devices/processes in injury biomechanics applications. We work on four principal strands: soft tissue mechanics (especially the structure-loading relationship in passive muscle), pedestrian/cyclist collisions (protection remains a challenge), sports injuries (increasing importance and sporting collisions are a living laboratory), and device design.
Research Areas
Subway Human Collisions
Large international collaborative research project aimed at designing a countermeasure to reduce the lethality of pedestrian subway impacts.
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High-Speed Train Post-Derailment Collisions
Study of railway occupant crash injury in post-derailment collisions, including studying the train post-derailment collision responses, and occupant injury analysis using dummy sled tests and simulations
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Rugby Collisions
Sports injuries are very common in contact sports such as rugby. Sometimes it's hard to diagnose some injuries, such as concussions, in the field due to lack of immediate symptoms. We aim to use pose estimation combined with multibody simulation software (MADYMO) to study those injuries.
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Athlete Rehabilitation
Further developing pose estimation models to establish biomechanically meaningful data from footage of athletes rehab exercises to support physios making assessments.
Learn MoreSoft tissue mechanics
Investigating the mechanical tension-compression asymmetry in skeletal muscle.
Buddy Roamer
Award-winning walking aid for children.
McElmeel Mobility
Crash resistant swivel seats.
Blk Box Designs
Gym equipment.
Wound closure
Device for improved surgical closure.
Research Group
Daniel Hall
PhD Candidate
Gongxun Deng
PhD Candidate
Richard Blythman
Technical Officer
Shi Shang
PhD Candidate
Gregory Tierney
PhD Candidate
Travis Davis
Research Fellow
Cyrus Doctor
Research Fellow
Blog
Some cars are often referred to as having a "5 star pedestrian safety rating". What does this mean. How safe is it really and how safe or unsafe does a car need to be to get a 1 star safety rating?
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We can integrate kinematic differential equations to determine both 1) where an object will be and 2) what orientation it will have after a specified amount of time. In this post I describe the mathematical procedure, and implement the solution in Python.
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Using differential equations of motion (EOMs) governed by Newton’s 2nd law we can describe the kinematics and dynamics of objects in motion. In this post I describe how EOMs can be calculated and applied programmatically for a simple case of a falling and bouncing ball with one translational degree of freedom.
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With a lack of complete basis vector representation for the two coordinate systems, there are an infinite number of rotation matrices, or axis-angle combinations that can be applied to achieve a desired vector mapping. However, here we define the constrained nature of the solution space.
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