抄録
Pole vault is an interesting task because of its high performance using a large elastic element. Although previously we showed that active bending motion is effective to improve pole vault height, it was sensitive to disturbance. In order to stabilize pole vaulting performance, physical feedback is important because of its quick response. Therefore, we focused on musculoskeletal system, especially its bi-articular spring-damper system, and investigated its contribution to stabilization of pole vaulting. We compared pole vaulting performance of a non spring-damper model, a mono-articular spring-damper model and a bi-articular spring-damper model in simulation on the disturbed condition. As a result, we found that the mono-articular spring-damper model and the bi-articular spring-damper model tended to be reduce negative effect of large disturbance at early timing of pole bending motion. In addition, bi-articular spring-damper model had intermediate response characteristics to disturbance between other two models. These results implicate that musculoskeletal system contributes to stabilize pole vault.
