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This workshop covers advanced topics in OpenSim. The workshop is an opportunity to learn more about how OpenSim works "under the hood" and get supervised, hands-on assistance with problems participants bring to the workshop. On the first day, participants will introduce their projects. The second and third days will be devoted to working on problems participants bring to the workshop. Participants have the opportunity to work in small breakout groups with OpenSim experts on their research problems.

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Please Note: This workshop is only open to winners of Pilot Project awards. The next OpenSim workshop will be in late summer or early fall of 2019. 

Table of Contents

 

Since many of the projects in the workshop are using Matlab scripting, we have also created a page with important links and troubleshooting information for Matlab scripters:

Matlab Resources for the Advanced User Workshop

 

Important Dates

IMPORTANT DATES

Wednesday, March 6

Submit Workshop Proposal by email (opensim@stanford.edu)

Friday, March 8Book Conference call time on the sign-up sheet

Tuesday or Wednesday, March 12 or 13

Conference calls with OpenSim Team

Monday, March 18

Start editing your Project Goals Slide

Tuesday to Thursday, March 26 - 28

Advanced User Workshop

 

Conference Calls 

Please carefully read the instructions on the cover page of the booking sheet. We will use Zoom for the kick-off Webinar. To use Zoom, you must have a Chrome Browser or the Zoom App installed.

Project Slides

Project Goal Slides | Accomplishment Slides (Links Coming Soon)

Participants present Project Goals slides Accomplishment Slides

Participants present a goal slide on the first day and Accomplishment slides an accomplishment slide on the last. The workshop slides are intended to help the OpenSim team, and your fellow Workshop attendees, understand your work, ask questions, and give feedback and support where possible. On the final day, participants present their Accomplishment slides

Location, Meals, and Coffee

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We expect participants to use their own laptops. Power supplies and wireless internet access will be provided.

Awards

Awards voting link

Should I use OpenSim 3.3 or 4.0?

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On Wednesday, March 27 from 8:15 am – 9:15 am, we will hold a hands-on introduction to OpenSim Moco, a new software package for solving common problems in simulation biomechanics including tracking simulations, predictive simulations, muscle-redundancy problems, and more. Moco brings state-of-the-art direct collocation optimal control methods to the wider biomechanics community without requiring numerical expertise. Moco leverages OpenSim’s existing modeling capabilities to make the transition from model building to simulation a seamless process in your research.

The objectives of the session are to introduce participants to Moco’s features, explain the direct collocation method used by Moco, and optimize a simple movement from scratch.

The tutorial assumes familiarity with Matlab, but experience with direct collocation methods is not required. Participants should bring a Mac or Windows (64-bit) laptop (and charger) with Matlab 2014b or later with Moco installed, or should be willing to team up with another participant. Instructions to set-up Moco are below. We are happy to help you with set-up on Tuesday, as well.

Setup Inforation

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  1. Start Menu > Search “environment” > “Edit the system environment variables” >
  2. Environment Variables… > Under System variables, select PATH and click Edit… >
  3. Add C:\opensim-moco\bin; to the beginning.
  4. Remove any entries for previous OpenSim installations.

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  1. Windows: sdk/Scripts/Matlab
  2. Mac: share/doc/Moco/Scripts/Matlab

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  1. Windows: sdk/Scripts/Matlab/exampleSitToStand
  2. Mac: share/doc/Moco/Scripts/Matlab/exampleSitToStand