Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 504-514 , July 2006

Sensitivity of kinematics-based model predictions to optimization criteria in static lifting tasks

  • N. Arjmand
    • ,
  • A. Shirazi-Adl

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: Department of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique, P.O. Box 6079, Station ‘centre-ville’, Montréal, Qué., Canada H3C 3A7. Tel.: +1 514 340 4711x4129; fax: +1 514 340 4176.

Received 30 March 2005 ,Revised 29 September 2005 ,Accepted 4 October 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2005.10.001

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 6 , Pages 504-514 , July 2006

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