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, 2017 quarter. Variations of this course have been offered by instructors elsewhere:

• B.J. Fregly at University of Florida
• 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

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

• The Strength of Simulation: Estimating Leg Muscle Forces in Stance and Swing

Lab 2

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

Lab 3

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

In-class exercise

• Sky High: Coordinating Muscles for Optimal Jump Performance

Resources

Documentation

• 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
• Examples and Tutorials
• API Examples
• Adding New Functionality
• OpenSim User's Forum

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)