ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers a 17-member human body model, which is intended to represent a person in a force field. He also considers procedures for efficiently accounting for various force systems. It is completed primarily through the use of equivalent force systems and generalized forces. The author describes develops the expressions for use with Kane’s dynamical equations and then for the development of numerical algorithms. For large multibody systems, such as our human body model, it is useful not only to organize the geometry and the kinematic descriptions but also to organize and efficiently account for the kinetics—that is, the various forces exerted on the bodies of the system. It is also done by using the concept of generalized forces.
