BIOE-ME 485 Spring 2014

Welcome to the main resource page for BIOE/ME 485: Modeling and Simulation of Human Movement. This course was taught by Prof. Scott Delp at Stanford University in the Spring, 2014 quarter. Variations of this course have been offered by instructors elsewhere:

• B.J. Fregly at University of Florida (course webpage)
• Rick Neptune at The University of Texas at Austin
• Jeff Reinbolt at The University of Tennessee (course webpage)
• Darryl Thelen at University of Wisconsin–Madison

Student Projects

• Description of the OpenSim Olympics (pdf)
• Getting Started with the Long Jump Challenge (pdf)
• Getting Started with the Running Challenge (pdf)

Project videos

• Standing Long Jump Challenge (mp4)
• Four-Minute Mile Challenge with Active Devices (mp4)
• Four-Minute Mile Challenge with Passive Devices (mp4)

Assignments

OpenSim Tutorials

• Tutorial 1 - Intro to Musculoskeletal Modeling
• Tutorial 2 - Simulation and Analysis of a Tendon Transfer Surgery
• Tutorial 3 - Scaling, Inverse Kinematics, and Inverse Dynamics

Lab 0

• Simulation-Based Design to Prevent Ankle Injuries

Lab 1

• Pulling Out the Stops: Designing a Muscle for a Tug-of-War Competition

Lab 2

• Depreciated_CPP_From the Ground Up: Building a Passive Dynamic Walker Model

Lab 3

     Choose one of the following:

• The Strength of Simulation: Estimating Leg Muscle Forces in Stance and Swing
• Sky High: Coordinating Muscles for Optimal Jump Performance

Project

• OpenSim Olympics (create a Confluence login and email Tom Uchida for access to the project page)

Resources

Documentation

• OpenSim 3.2 Documentation (doxygen)
• Simbody 3.3 Documentation (doxygen)
• More Simbody documentation (see, in particular, Simmatrix)

Examples

• C++ API Examples
• Creating a Customized (Fatigable) Muscle Model

Project Deliverables

• Tips for creating videos
• Free software for creating a video from a sequence of pngs (RAD Video Tools)
• Free screen recording software (CamStudio)