I DOWNLOADED OPENSIM - NOW WHAT?
This introductory tutorial at the 2015 Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) annual meeting provides hands-on lessons for getting started with OpenSim.
The workshop will take place on Wednesday March 18, 4-6pm. The workshop will feature a practical, hands-on tutorial will introduce participants to OpenSim’s features, file formats, and documentation using clinically-relevant examples.
Full Abstract: OpenSimTutorial gcmas2015.pdf
Prepartion for the Tutorial
Enrolled participants should bring a Laptop running Windows operating system and OpenSim installed.
Downloading OpenSim
OpenSim is hosted on SimTK, a cloud storage service for biomedical tools and research. here are 32- and 64- bit versions available and are designed to correspond with your system requirements. If you are unsure how to find this out; click here.
Download OpenSim 3.2.
Download Notepad++
OpenSim models and setup files are written in xml. These xml files are a convenient way of storing, transferring and editing OpenSim models and analyses. Notepad++ is an xml editor that makes it easier to view and edit xml files. During the tutorial we will use Notepad++ to explore the structure of the an OpenSim model.
Download Notepad++
Download GCMAS tutorial (add zip tutorial folder)
coming soon
Instructions for testing installation
coming soon
Workshop Staff and Contact Information
Instructors
Allison Arnold-Rife (aarnold@oeb.harvard.edu) Concord Field Station, Harvard University
| Apoorva Rajagopal (apoorvar@stanford.edu) Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory, Stanford University
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Support Staff
Chris Carty (c.carty@griffith.edu.au) School of Allied Health Sciences, Griffith University
| James Dunne (james.dunne@stanford.edu) Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory, Stanford University
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Tutorial Exercises and Demos
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Tutorial Slides
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Background Reading
We recommend reviewing the following resources to lean more about OpenSim
Useful Links
National Center for Simulation Research (NCSRR)
OpenSim Documentation (Confluence)
Overview of the OpenSim Workflow
Relevant Literature
OpenSim: Open-Source Software to Create and Analyze Dynamic Simulations of Movement
Scott L. Delp, Frank C. Anderson, Allison S. Arnold, Peter Loan, Ayman Habib, Chand T. John, Eran Guendelman, and Darryl G. Thelen
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, VOL. 54, NO. 11, NOVEMBER 2007
Is My Model Good Enough? Best Practices for Verification and Validation of Musculoskeletal Models and Simulations of Movement
Jennifer L. Hicks, Thomas K. Uchida, Ajay Seth, Scott L. Delp.
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Volume 137, Issue 2, 2015
Muscle contributions to vertical and fore-aft accelerations are altered in subjects with crouch gait
KM Steele, A Seth, JL Hicks, MH Schwartz, SL Delp
Gait & posture 38 (1), 86-91
Can biomechanical variables predict improvement in crouch gait?
JL Hicks, SL Delp, MH Schwartz
Gait & posture 34 (2), 197-201
Crouched postures reduce the capacity of muscles to extend the hip and knee during the single-limb stance phase of gait
JL Hicks, MH Schwartz, AS Arnold, SL Delp
Journal of biomechanics 41 (5), 960-967