Luciano Luporini Menegaldo, Ph.D.

Musculoskeletal Biomechanics

Biped, Mobile and Inspection Robots

Optimal Control

Mathematical modeling of mechanical and biological systems

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Current Founded Research Projects

Development of ultra-sound sensor carrying robot for ship and FPSO hull inspecting

FINEP Ações Transversais / IME / Fundação Ricardo Franco / Inspectronics Inc. Consortium

Development of a riser inspection robot

FINEP CT-Petro / IME / Fundação Ricardo Franco / Inspectronics Inc. Consortium

Biomechanics and inverse dynamics of redundandtly-actuated closed-loop kinematical chains

FAPERJ – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Stewart platform for a helicopter simulator, Brazilian Army (PBCT)

Personal data

Associate Professor

Military Institute of Engineering - IME

Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Pça. Gal. Tibúrcio, 80

Praia Vermelha
Rio de Janeiro – RJ

CEP 22290-270

Brazil

Phone 55-21-2546-7243, Fax 55-21-2546-7049

Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian.

Member of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering

e-mail: lmeneg@ime.eb.br

Education

B. E. Mechanical Engineering, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 1994, Brazil

M. S. Mechanical Engineering, 1997, UNICAMP, Brazil

Area: Solid Mechanics and Mechanical Design

Thesis: “Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Artificial Control of Posture in Humans”

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Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, 2001, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil

Area: Dynamics and Control of Mechanical Systems

Thesis: “Biomechanical Modeling and Optimal Control of Human Posture with Algorithms Based on Consistent Approximations Theory ” (download)

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Pos-Doc

Control Engineering, 2001-2002

São Paulo State Institute for Technological Research (IPT), Brazil

Project: “Development of optimal control algorithms for applications in complex engineering problems”

Mathematics, 2003

Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Scientific Computing, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil

Project: “Mathematical Modeling and optimal control applications on human movement studies”

Teaching (go to my classroom notes home page)

Current

Instrumentation, Graduation, Military Institute of Engineering

Control Systems, Graduation, Military Institute of Engineering

Signal Processing, Post-graduation, Military Institute of Engineering

Control of Mechanical Systems, Post-graduation, Military Institute of Engineering

Open Course

Philosophical Anthropology, Military Institute of Engineering

Past

Mechanisms, Graduation, 2004-2005, Military Institute of Engineering

Biomechanics, post-graduation in Physiotherapy, Ribeirão Preto University

General Mechanics, 2003, Graduation, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of São Paulo.

Introduction to Biomechanics, 2003, Graduation, Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of São Paulo

Simulation and Modeling of Physiological Systems, pos-graduation, 2002, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas

Mathematical Models in Biomechanics and Rehabilitation, 2002, Institute of Orthopedics, School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo

Laboratory of Digital Electronics, Paulista University, 2003

Laboratory of Antennas, Paulista University, 2003

Laboratory of Computing, Paulista University, 2004

Introduction to Computing, Paulista University, 2004

Physics I (mechanics), Paulista University, 2004

Publications

Journals, books and book chapters

L.L. Menegaldo, A. T. Fleury, H. I. Weber, A “cheap” optimal control method to estimate muscle forces in musculoskeletal systems, in press, Journal of Biomechanics, A cheap optimal control method to estimate muscle forces in musculoskeletal systems. Journal of Biomechanics, Holanda, v. 39, n. 10, p. 1787-1795, 2006. (download)

L.L. Menegaldo; E.B. de las Casas, Biomechanical Engineering in Brazil. International Society of Biomechanics Newsletter, Estados Unidos, v. 99, p. 4-7, 2006.

L.L. Menegaldo, R. Santana, A. T. Fleury, H. I. Kinematical Modeling and Optimal Design of a Biped Robot Joint Parallel Linkage, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, v. XXVII, p. 507-513, 2006.

L.L. Menegaldo, A. T. Fleury, H. I. Weber , Moment Arms and Musculotendon Lengths Estimation for a three-dimensional Lower-limb Model, Journal of Biomechanics, 37 1447-1453, 2004 (download)

L.L. Menegaldo, A. T. Fleury, H. I. Weber, Biomechanical Modeling and Optimal Control of Human Posture Journal of Biomechanics, 36 1701-1712, 2003 (download)

L.L. Menegaldo, D. C. Pamplona, J. P. Ortiz, organization of the book: ABCM Symposium Series in Bioengineering, Vol. 1, Rio de Janeiro: Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 2007.

L.L. Menegaldo, A. T. Fleury, H. I. Weber. Optimal control of human posture using algorithms based on consistent approximations theory In: F. Udwadia, H. Weber, Leitmann, G., (Editors), Dynamical Systems and Control, CRC Press, 2004. (download)

L.L. Menegaldo, A.T. Fleury, Biomechanical Modeling and Optimal Control of Human Posture with Algorithms Based on Consistent Approximations Theory, Boletim Técnico da Escola Politécnica da USP, BT/PME/0202, São Paulo, 2002.

L.L. Menegaldo, I.A. Cestari, A.C.S. Carvalho Jr., A. T. Fleury, H.I., Weber, A model of Skeletal Muscular Dynamics: Analytical Development and Experimental Testing in Canine Lastissumus Dorsi, Applied Mechanics in the Americas, Vol. 6, pp. 11-14, Gonçalves, B., Jasiuk, I., Pamplona, D., Steele, C. R., Weber, H. I., Bevilacqua, C., Editors, AAM and ABCM, Rio de Janeiro, 1999.

L.L. Menegaldo, H.I. Weber, Biomechanics of Upright Standing in Humans: a Simulation Study, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering – 2, Middleton, J., Jones, M. L., Pande, G. N., Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, London, pp.775-782, 1998.

L.L. Menegaldo, H.I. Weber , Modeling, Simulation and Control of Human Postural Dynamics with Induced Oscillatory Motion, Non-Linear Dynamics, Chaos, Control and their Applications in Engineering Sciences, Balthazar, J. M., Mook, D. T., Rosário, J. M. Eds., Publ. AAM (American Academy of Mechanics) and ABCM (Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas), Vol.1, pp. 271-274, 1997.

C.A.C. Altemani, L.L. Menegaldo, Enhanced Convective Cooling of a PCB in a Duct, Advances in Electronic Packaging, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineering) EEP Vol.10-2, pp. 817-822, T.R. Hsu, A. Bar-Cohen, W. Nakayama Eds., 1995.

Conferences

SANTANA, Rogério ; FLEURY, Agenor de Toledo ; MENEGALDO, L. L. . Mechanical design and testing of a biped robot to reproduce normal and pathological gait patterns from motion capture systems. Journal of Biomechanics, v. 39, n. supplement, p. 114, 2006.

Dionisio, V.C. ; ALMEIDA, G.L. ; MENEGALDO, L. L. . Influência dos Métodos para o Cálculo dos Torques em Sujeitos Normais e Portadores da SDFP. In: 1o ENEBI - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia Biomecânica, 2007, Petropolis. Anais do 1o ENEBI. Rio de Janeiro : ABCM - Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 2007.

OLIVEIRA, Marcelo Elias de ; MENEGALDO, L. L. . Aplicação de Neuro-Fuzzy na Predição de Forças em Sistemas Biomecânicos. In: 1o ENEBI - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia Biomecânica, 2007, Petropolis. Anais do 1o ENEBI. Rio de Janeiro : ABCM - Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 2007.

MENEGALDO, L. L. ; CASAS, Estevam Barbosa de Las . O que é engenharia biomecânica?. In: 1o ENEBI - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia Biomecânica, 2007, Petropolis. Anais do 1o ENEBI. Rio de Janeiro : ABCM - Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 2007.

SILVA, O. L. ; MENEGALDO, L. L. ; MOURA, Claudio Leandro Alves . EOM2SS: Uma rotina para geração automática de equações de estado de sistemas biomecânicos. In: 1o ENEBI - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia Biomecânica, 2007, Petropolis. Anais do 1o ENEBI. Rio de Janeiro : ABCM - Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 2007.

SONO, T. ; MENEGALDO, L. L. . Estudo Experimental da Cinemática do Dedo de uma Prótese de Mão Sub-atuado. In: 1o ENEBI - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia Biomecânica, 2007, Petropolis. Anais do 1o ENEBI. Rio de Janeiro : ABCM - Associação Brasileira de Ciências Mecânicas, 2007.

O. Luppi Silva, L.L. Menegaldo . INVERSE DYNAMICS OF A CLOSED CHAIN REDUNDANTLY ACTUATED BIOMECHANICAL MECHANISM. In: IV Congresso Nacional de Engenharia Mecânica, 2006, Recife. Proceedings do IV CONEM. Recife-PE : UFPE e ABCM, 2006.

MENEGALDO, L. L. ; PINTO, Anderson Luis Paiva . Projeto Mecânico de um Braço Robótico para Testes de Sensores Inerciais. In: VII Encontro de Iniciação Científica do IME, 2006, Rio de Janeiro. Livro de Resumos, 2006. p. T25.

R. SANTANA, A.G. FLEURY, L.L. MENEGALDO, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND TESTING OF A LOW COST BIPED WALKING ROBOT: MODELING AND CONTROL ASPECTS. In: Congresso Brasileiro de Automática, 2006.

O. Luppi Silva, F.G. Dedini, L.L. Menegaldo, Study of the inverse dynamics optimal control technique in cycling, XXth Confererence of the International Society of Biomechanics, Cleveland, OH, 2005 (download).

L.L. Menegaldo, R. S. Santana, A. T. Fleury, Kinematical modeling and optimal design of a biped robot joint parallel linkage, XI Diname, XIth International Conference on Dynamic Problems in Mechanics, Ouro Preto, 2005 (download).

C. M. Yokaichiya, A. Wisbeck Neto, R. Gonzáles-Lima, W. de Godoy, L. L. Menegaldo, Estimation of Cerebral Palsy gait stability trough Floquet Multipliers, Workshop on non-linear phenomena: modeling and their applications, DEMAC-UNESP, São Paulo, 2005.

O. Luppi Silva, L.L. Menegaldo, F.G. Dedini, Minimização da co-contração muscular no movimento de pedalar através de modelo biomecânico, III COLAOB – Congresso Latino Americano de Biomateriais, Campinas-SP, 2004.

L. L Menegaldo, A.T. Fleury, H. I. Weber, The Inverse Dynamics Optimal Control method to estimate muscle forces in musculoskeletal systems, 6^th International Symposium on Conputer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Madrid, 2004 (download presentation)

L.L. Menegaldo, A. T. Fleury, H.I. Weber, Optimal Control Approaches to Human Posture Simulation Based on a new Biomechanical Model, Proceedings of XDINAME, 10h International Conference on Dynamic Problems in Mechanics, Ubatuba, 2003. (download)

L.L., Menegaldo, , le Diagon, V., Villar, C., Fleury, A. T., Piñero-Valle, A., Soares, A., Pagnota, M., Santana, R., Cruz, J.J. Conceptual and mechanical design of an anthropometric-scaled biped robot for reproducing normal and pathological human gait, Proceedings of COBEM 2003 -17^th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, São Paulo, 2003. (download)

L.L. Menegaldo, M. T. Montandon, A. T. Fleury, H. I. Weber, Determining the Instantaneous Rotation Axis of the Knee through a Musculoskeletal Modeling Software, CILAMCE 2000 – 21th Latin American Congress on Computational Methods in Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, 2000 (download).

L.L Menegaldo, A.T. Fleury, H. I. Weber, Neuromuscular excitation patterns of human posture through an optimal control approach. Proceedings of IV World Congress of Biomechanics, Calgary, Canada – August 2002 (download).

L.L Menegaldo, A.T. Fleury, H. I. Weber, Optimal control of human posture using algorithms based on consistent approximations theory, Abstracts 11^st DYNCO - Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Rio de Janeiro, 2000.

A. C. S. Carvalho Jr., L. L. Menegaldo, A. T. Fleury, Estudo comparativo e implementação computacional de modelos matemáticos da mecânica da contração muscular, Simpósio de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo, 6. SICUSP, resumos. São Paulo : USP, 1998.

P. Polonio, L. L. Menegaldo, C. P. Pesce, Determinação experimental do vetor de reação com o solo (VRS) na postura humana através de plataformas de força e de modelos dinâmicos inversos, Simpósio de Iniciação Científica da Universidade de São Paulo, 6. 6.SICUSP, resumos. São Paulo : USP, 1998.

L.L. Menegaldo, H. I. Weber, Biomechanics of upright standing in humans: a simulation study, Proceedings DINAME97 – 7th International Conference on Dynamic Problems in Mechanics, Angra dos Reis – RJ, pp. 128-129, 1997.

L.L. Menegaldo, H. I. Weber, Modeling, simulation and control of human postural dynamics under oscillatory excitation, Abstracts 11^st DYNCO - Workshop on Dynamics and Control, Rio de Janeiro, 1996.

L.L. Menegaldo, A. Cliquet Jr., Use of Piezo-resistive Accelerometers for Ankle Angle Assessment, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 39, part 2, pp. 879. Abstracts of The World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, 1994.

L.L. Menegaldo, J.C.L. Sariego, Transplante de Líquens como Bio-indicadores de Poluição Atmosférica na Região Metropolitana de São Paulo, 43^a Reunião Anual da SBPC, Rio de Janeiro, pp. 10 E-2, 1991.