Thrust-versus-endurance trade-off optimization in swimming
Thrust-versus-endurance trade-off optimization in swimming
This article applies methods typically used in engineering applications to the optimization of human locomotion, more specifically a swimmer's underwater ‘dolphin kick’. This is a dual-objective problem which seeks the optimal trade-off between thrust (simulated using Lighthill's fish propulsion method) and the force in the muscles to produce this thrust (simulated using musculoskeletal modelling). The expense of the analyses leads to the use of a surrogate modelling based optimization technique (multi-objective expected improvement using Kriging). The results indicate that optimal human motion does in many respects follow that of fish, with low frequency eel-like techniques suitable for endurance and a high frequency tuna-like kick for high thrust. The MATLAB® code, including thrust and muscle activity models, is made available in an online repository.
Kriging, dolphin kick, expected improvement, multiobjective, musculoskeletal modelling, surrogate modelling, swimming
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Phillips, Christopher W. G.
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Hudson, Dominic A.
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Turnock, Stephen R.
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Forrester, Alexander I. J.
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2 June 2020
Phillips, Christopher W. G.
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Hudson, Dominic A.
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Turnock, Stephen R.
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Forrester, Alexander I. J.
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Phillips, Christopher W. G., Hudson, Dominic A., Turnock, Stephen R. and Forrester, Alexander I. J.
(2020)
Thrust-versus-endurance trade-off optimization in swimming.
Engineering Optimization, 52 (6), .
(doi:10.1080/0305215X.2019.1636980).
Abstract
This article applies methods typically used in engineering applications to the optimization of human locomotion, more specifically a swimmer's underwater ‘dolphin kick’. This is a dual-objective problem which seeks the optimal trade-off between thrust (simulated using Lighthill's fish propulsion method) and the force in the muscles to produce this thrust (simulated using musculoskeletal modelling). The expense of the analyses leads to the use of a surrogate modelling based optimization technique (multi-objective expected improvement using Kriging). The results indicate that optimal human motion does in many respects follow that of fish, with low frequency eel-like techniques suitable for endurance and a high frequency tuna-like kick for high thrust. The MATLAB® code, including thrust and muscle activity models, is made available in an online repository.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 June 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 17 July 2019
Published date: 2 June 2020
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This work was funded by the EPSRC [grant reference EP/H501568/1]. The authors thank British Swimming for their help with data collection.
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords:
Kriging, dolphin kick, expected improvement, multiobjective, musculoskeletal modelling, surrogate modelling, swimming
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