This hands-on workshop is held at the Summer School on Neurorehabilitation Engineering for Clinical Practice (September 15-20, 2013, Elche, Spain).
The workshop will first give an introduction on novel methodologies that use experimental measurements of electromyography (EMG) data as input drive for physiologically accurate and comprehensive models of the human musculoskeletal systemintroduce novel neuromusculoskeletal modeling methodologies that allow predicting the dynamics of the musculoskeletal system as controlled by outputs from the neural system (https://simtk.org/home/ceinms). A live software demonstration DEMO will then demonstrate show real-time EMG-driven musculoskeletal modelling as a means to estimate musculoskeletal dynamics on one healthy individualsindividual.
The workshop will then introduce the software package OpenSim (https://simtk.org/home/opensim). In this, participants will be introduced to the theory behind simulation of musculoskeletal movement in OpenSim, along with the framework of the software architecture and functions. This will be followed by a hands-on examples example on how to use the GUI and API to enable participants to start using OpenSim for simulating the interaction between the human musculoskeletal system and wearable devices.OpenSim C++ API to create biped models of locomotion from ground up.