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Virtual Workshop October 2017
The Virtual Workshop will bring together a group of international scholars and OpenSim experts to help each other advance their research using modeling and simulation.The OpenSim team at Stanford University will provide guidance on your projects, while also facilitating discussion and support amongst your fellow Workshop participants. We hope that this event can accelerate your work while also building relationships with a network of researchers and engineers who are using OpenSim for research. Below, we have provided a list of information and resources for the Workshop. Please check back regularly, since we will add more links and information as we get closer to the workshop start date.
IMPORTANT DATES | |
October 11- 13 | Receive and review written feedback from OpenSim team |
Wednesday, October 18 | Start editing your Project Goals Slide Sign up for Conference Calls |
Sunday, October 22 | Finalize your Project Goals Slide |
Monday, October 23 | Tune in to workshop welcome webinar (930am PDT) Review and Comment on Project Goals Slides Workshop Forum opens Office Hours 1 (10-1130am and 2-3pm US PDT) |
Tuesday, October 24 | Office Hours 2 (930-11am and 2-3pm US PDT) |
Thursday, October 26 | Office Hours 3 (930-11am and 2-3pm US PDT) |
Friday, October 27 | Finalize Closing Accomplishment Slides (8 am PDT) |
Monday, October 30 | Forum Closes to new questions |
Webinar
Link to Closing Webinar
The OpenSim team will deliver a live Welcome and Closing Webinar. The Webinars will feature short talks followed by questions from the audience about Workshop and presentations from workshop award winners (closing Webinar). We will use Zoom for the kick-off Webinar. To use Zoom, you either need to have a Chrome Browser or a native Zoom App installed.
Welcome Webinar: Monday, October 23 at 930am
Closing Webinar: Friday, October 27, at 1000am
Conference Calls
Link to Booking Sheet
Virtual office hours will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, October 23, 24, and 26. Office hours bookings can be here. 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 either need to have a Chrome Browser or a native Zoom App installed.
Conference Call Schedule (all times in US PDT);
- Monday, October 23, 1000-1130 am and 2-3 pm.
- Tuesday, October 24, 930-1100 am and 2-3 pm.
- Thursday, October 26, 930-1100 am and 2-3 pm.
Virtual Poster Session
The Virtual Poster Session is an opportunity for you to show off your work, ask questions, and provide support to your Workshop colleagues. The Accomplishment slides can be found here. Carefully read and follow the instructions. We’ll also give out prizes based on the discussion about the projects. You must complete your workshop Accomplishment Slides by Friday, October 27, 9am (US PDT). Each time you ask a question or make a comment, you will be entered into a prize draw!
Forum Support
Follow the links to find simple guides for asking good questions and providing helpful answers. During the workshop, the OpenSim team will devote part of each day to answering questions, but we hope that participants will be active in answering each other's questions, as well. The workshop is about sharing experience and building community. Remember that it is better to ask a greater number of smaller, tractable questions than a single, large post with multiple questions. Try to be specific. Be positive and have fun!
Awards Voting
Link to Awards Voting
Voting for Awards closes on Friday, November 27 at 9am (US PDT). The awards include Biggest Research Discovery, Technical Grand Prize, Coolest Demo or Video, and Best Blooper. Award winners will be invited to present their slides and talk about their workshop experience during the closing webinar.
Should I use the latest code from Github or stay with version 3.3?
The latest, cutting-edge, code-base for OpenSim API now lives on Github (aka 4.0). Many participants expressed interest in migrating to version 4.0. Migration has benefits but also comes with several caveats:
1. Version 4.0 introduces new abstractions that make it easier to create your own "Components" (e.g. Controllers or Muscles) and to extract/report results with little code but to use these you need to learn a new set of abstractions and API calls. The documentation is still limited and we have not finished testing the code.
2. The API will keep changing, so you will likely need to make some updates to any code after the official 4.0 is released.
3. There's currently no GUI release for version 4.0. Keep that in mind if you need GUI functionality (e.g. to visualize your model or results). Model and storage file formats have changed and so are not supported by the 3.3 GUI.
Useful Links and Literature
National Center for Simulation Research (NCSRR)
OpenSim Documentation (Confluence)
Overview of the OpenSim Workflow
OpenSim Development Source Code
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, Apoorva Rajagopal, Scott L. Delp
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Volume 137, Issue 2, 2015.
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