KMD | Articulation
Kinesthetic Motion Database





Articulation


Shoulders, backbones, wrists, fingers, knees, necks—our body has multiple joints. A joint is a connection between bones in the body which link the skeletal system into a functional whole. Each joint contributes to unique kinaesthetic sense as it is comprised of different components such as tendons and also connected with different muscles.



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Double pendulum

A double pendulum is a pair of rigid bodies joined with a hinge and hanged from either side of the edges. It resembles the skeletal strucutres of human arms/elbows and legs/knees. Several commonalities can be found in the motion of a double pendulum, i.e. speedily stretching an arm to the point where the elbow is no longer bent, the sense of skeletal limitation in the elbow, the feel of the blood being pushed to the edge.



Arm Machine

Arm Machine consists of two servo motors, two wooden bars and a microcomputer. The two servo motors in Arm Machine can be associated with a shoulder and an elbow.



Biometal experiment

A pair of plastic pieces connected with a joint. The biometal in between pulls the pieces to move forward. Waching the object 'walking' makes me simulate walking with the feet always touched to the ground.


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