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- What does the landscape of metabolic cost look like when resting length and stiffness are varied for a single subject? What are the optimal values for these parameters? How big of an effect do small variations in each of the parameters have on the metabolic savings?
- Do these optimal stiffness and resting length parameters vary between subjects or are they approximately the same when normalized by subject height and weight? How does speed affect the parameters?
- Do kinematics change significantly when using the device? If so, how does changing kinematics induced by the device change muscle activation during the gait cycle?
Progress
- Set up MATLAB API for scripting
- Added a metabolic probe to my model and tested on a couple of stiffnesses and resting lengths. I saw the same trends of decreasing metabolic cost as my previous results using the square of muscle activations, but with slightly different values.
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