@INPROCEEDINGS{Ven07_RSJ, AUTHOR = "Venture,G. and Nakamura,Y. and Yamane,K. and Hirashima, M.", TITLE = "????????????????????????????????? - A Painless and Constraint-free Method to Estimate Viscoelastic Passive Dynamics of Limbs’ Joints to Support Diagnosis of Neuromuscular Diseases", BOOKTITLE = "The 25th Annual Conf. of the Robotics Society of Japan", YEAR = "2007", address = "Chiba, Japan", month = "September", abstract = {The human joints dynamics is important in the fields of medical robotics and medical research though it is rarely identified. This paper presents an in-vivo solution to identify the passive dynamics of several human limbs’ joints simultaneously using a multi-body description of the human body and its kinematics and dynamics computations. The linear passive joint dynamics of shoulders and elbows is identified with the linear least squares. Movements are recorded with an optical motion capture studio during the clinical diagnosis of neuromuscular diseases. The obtained results are presented and discussed.}, file = F }