Welcome to the main resource page for BIOE/ME 485: Modeling and Simulation of Human Movement. This course is being taught by Prof. Scott Delp at Stanford University in the Spring, 2018 quarter. Variations of this course have been offered by instructors elsewhere:
- B.J. Fregly at Rice University
- 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 Project Pages
- Combining Kinematic and Coordination Gait Modifications to Reduce Medial Knee Contact Force During Walking
- Comparing Knee Angle for Subject IMU Self-Placement
- Development of Upper-Extremity IMU to OpenSim Data Conversion Method
- Modeling Bilateral Hip-Knee-Ankle Exoskeleton Assistance
- OpenSim Teaching Materials -- Educational Cycling Model
- Sensitivity Analysis of Gait Models for Realistic Variation of Muscle-tendon Parameters
- Upper Extremity Wearable Assistive Device
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 (done in ME 281)
Lab 1
Lab 2
Lab 3
Lab 4 (in-class exercise)
Resources
Documentation
- Custom Google search box at opensim.stanford.edu
- OpenSim 3.3 Documentation (doxygen)
- Simbody 3.5 Documentation (doxygen)
- More Simbody documentation can be found on simtk.org and on GitHub
Getting Started with OpenSim
- Download OpenSim
- Running OpenSim on Mac OS X or Linux using a Windows Virtual Machine
- Examples and Tutorials
- C++ API Examples
- Adding New Functionality
- Scripting in the OpenSim GUI, MATLAB, and Python
- OpenSim User's Forum
- OpenSim source code on GitHub
Project Links
- See project videos from previous offerings of the course:
- Tips for creating videos
- Free software for creating a video from a sequence of pngs (RAD Video Tools)
- Free screen recording software (CamStudio)