Knowledge-based parametric CAD models of configurable biomechanical structures using geometric skeletons

The main objective is to develop knowledge-based parametric CAD models for further numerical simulations. The proposed approach reuses in part a skeleton-based modelling approach - already successfully applied in product geometric modelling - and extends it to integrate knowledge captured from the anatomical definition and behaviour of the human body. As such, to demonstrate the applicability and the relevance of the proposed approach, a human hand is introduced as a biomechanical case study and defined within a developed knowledge-based engineering application embedded in a CAD system.