Presenter(s)
Bingjue Li
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Description
Morphometrics seeks to quantify shapes for the purposes of comparison. This work investigates two morphometric problems by applying the theory of shape-changing rigid-body mechanisms. The first problem is the analysis of a head growth in children. The second problem is the spatiotemporal evolution of the longitudinal human skull shape. These problems are specified with a set of curves that represent the cranium shapes as they change over time, in the child’s head as it grows and in the skull as it evolves. Using the rigid-body shape-changing mechanism design methodology, a chain of rigid links connected by revolute and prismatic joints is generated to approximate the set of curves. The advantage of approaching morphometrics in this way is that a modest number of physical parameters describes the changes between the curves.
Publication Date
4-9-2015
Project Designation
Graduate Research
Primary Advisor
Andrew P. Murray, David H. Myszka
Primary Advisor's Department
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Keywords
Stander Symposium project
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Business | Education | Engineering | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
"Morphometric Skull Analysis Using Jointed Chains of Rigid Bodies" (2015). Stander Symposium Projects. 675.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/675
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