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, 2023 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
- Anoosha and Six
- Ashley and Allyson
- Comparison of Rigid and Compliant Tendon Dynamics in Static Optimization for Gait Analysis
- Dani and Gaby
- Optimizing Muscle Activations in Flight-Phase Sprinting at Different Speeds
- Predicting Ground Reaction Forces with EMG Data: a Neural Network Approach
- Simulation of Anticipatory Postural Adjustments
- Toward predicting exoskeleton-assisted gait
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 1
Lab 2
Lab 3
Lab 4
Resources
Documentation
- OpenSim API Documentation (doxygen)
- Simbody API Documentation (doxygen)
- More Simbody documentation can be found on simtk.org and on GitHub
Getting Started with OpenSim
- Download OpenSim
- Examples and Tutorials
- 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:
- Free software for creating a video from a sequence of pngs (RAD Video Tools)
- Free screen recording software (CamStudio)
