What is BoB-4-Biomechanics?
BoB-4-Biomechanics is specifically designed for teaching biomechanics and bringing the subject to life.
BoB-4-Biomechanics has all of the analysis and graphics capabilities of BoB and is pre-loaded with data illustrating many biomechanical principles.
BoB-4-Biomechanics is at a price-point where every student can have a musculoskeletal model on their own PC or Mac.
BoB-4-Biomechanics is a self-contained package for students of biomechanics to investigate, observe and learn biomechanical analysis. The package contains examples of biomechanical activities ranging from simple, idealised movements to real-life motion captured trials. No motion capture equipment is required to use BoB-4-Biomechanics.
BoB-4-Biomechanics encourages the student to experiment, enquire and gain a deep understanding of the principals employed in biomechanical analysis with a very short learning curve and minimal supervision.
BoB-4-Biomechanics contains many sophisticated graphics and analysis functions including a 3-dimensional viewer and can generate output as graphs, numeric data, videos and images.
The BoB-4-Biomechanics package also contains editable example worksheets of exercises for students to follow and complete.
BoB-4-Biomechanics can analyse and display:
Kinematics
Anatomical trajectories
Body instances
Point position/vel/acc
Joint angles
Joint range of motion
Distance/angles between points
Muscle length
Segmental orientation
Velocity vectors
An
Kinetics
Torques at joints
Externally applied force
Ground reaction forces
Joint contact forces
Muscle labelling
Muscle forces
Muscle energy/power
Total muscle energy/power
Muscle torque decomposition
The BoB-4-Biomechanics package contains examples of:
Static hand weight
Knee flexing
Running
Ballet 540 jete
Climbing stairs
Single foot balance
Moving hands weight
Inverse dynamics
Rowing
Ballet fouette
Wheelbarrowing
Cycling with EMG
Moving force
Gait
Baseball pitching
Manual handling
Tennis serve
BoB-4-Biomechanics is written in MATLAB (no MATLAB licence is required) which will be a familiar environment for many students.
BoB-4-Biomechanics can display top-level menus in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
Specifications
PC
- Windows 7 or later.
- Any Intel or AMD x86-64 processor (4 logical cores. recommended)
- Hardware accelerated graphics card supporting OpenGL 3.3 with 1GB GPU memory.
- 16Gb RAM.
- Minimum 5Gb fee disc space.
- Internet access required
Mac
- macOS Catalina (10.15) or later
- Any Intel x86-64 processor (4 logical cores recommended)
- Minimum 4Gb (8Gb recommended) RAM
- OpenGL 3.3 recommended
- Minimum 8Gb free disc space
- Internet access required
Download free trial version of BoB
BoB is available in a free trial version. The trial version is fully functional and contains pre-defined trials but cannot import new trials.