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The handbike is an upper body-powered vehicle used for sports and rehabilitation purposes. The advantages include improving patients physical activities and fitness level, as well as promoting an active lifestyle after rehabilitation duration. In this research the torques in shoulder and elbow joints have been determined during handbike motion from dynamic output and kinematics information. Therefore, a 2D model was presented. Data have been collected based on the output of experimental results obtained by sensors inserted on the handles of a cycle ergometer and by marker coordinates acquired by a vision system.
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The signum function is defined as follows:
$$ sign(x)=\left\{ \begin{array}{ll} x/|x| &{} \; \mathrm{if} \;\; x \ne 0 \\ 0 &{} \; \mathrm{if} \;\; x = 0 \end{array} \right. . $$
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Azizpour, G., Ousdad, A., Legnani, G., Incerti, G., Lancini, M., Gaffurini, P. (2017). Dynamic Analysis of Handcycling: Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Tests. In: Boschetti, G., Gasparetto, A. (eds) Advances in Italian Mechanism Science. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 47. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48375-7_4
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