Digital Biomechanics

Virtual Prototyping In A Real World

Your challenge: to create and test next-generation soldier system technology. Our solution: a virtual prototyping tool based on next-generation human simulation, a tool that goes beyond ergonomics and passive crash test dummies, a tool that provides dynamic simulation, active behavior control, and built-in anthropometry, a tool called Digital Biomechanics™.

Digital Biomechanics is the world's first simulation tool to model the effect of equipment on soldiers engaged in actual tasks, from walking, running, and crawling to completing a virtual obstacle course. These human models obey the same laws of balance, locomotion, and dynamic loading as real people do in the physical world. Digital Biomechanics predicts how changes in equipment, environment or task will affect soldier performance, bodily forces, and fatigue during realistic warfighting tasks. Use it to analyze soldier performance before building physical mock-ups and doing live testing. It shortens design/test cycles, reduces cost, minimizes the risks of live testing, and gets more effective equipment to the battlefield faster.

Digital Biomechanics uses "first principles" physical models and robot control technology to capture the mechanics of human (or robot) motion at a fundamental level. Digital Biomechanics has been used for dismounted equipment analysis in programs such as the Marine Expeditionary Rifle Squad the Army Future Force Warrior and Canadian soldier modernization. The tool is also heavily used at Boston Dynamics in the development of advanced robotic systems such as BigDog, PETMAN and others.

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