[Webcast] - Musculoskeletal modeling from scratch

Seemingly unrelated musculoskeletal modeling solutions often share a set of core concepts, which become evident through gradual experience. Our presenter for this webcast has also journeyed along this rocky learning curve.

Ananth will show you a live demo of how a simple, one-segment model is built from scratch, while explaining the underlying modeling concepts. He will go on to show you how a complex human model can be made to interact with this segment, using the same basic concepts, resulting in simulations of cranking motions.

It will conclude with how these concepts can be extended to simulate motion in different environments. New users of the AnyBody Modeling System, would find this webcast useful for getting started.

Presenter: Ananth Gopalakrishnan, PhD, AnyBody Technology

[beatrizmiranda]

Hello! I have looked for the AnyBody files regarding this webcasts but I can't seem to find them anywhere. Could you resend the link to where those are?? Thank you for the outstanding explanation by the way!

[MuhammadArshad]

Hello,
first of all, thank you so much for such an amazing explanation. I have two questions.

Question 1: I do not have a trial version yet (already requested for it) but I am curious about what did you mean by 'explicitly mentioning all the joint angles as drivers?" Do you mean that if someone uses a 44 DoF Human Model, he needs to explicitly define all the joint angles for simulation time (like you defined the angular velocity and displacement for crank shaft)?

Question 2: I just wonder what would have happened, had you put Hard Rotational Constraints on the Hand-Crankshaft driver ? because when you ran the Inverse Dynamics simulation results, it did not seem right at the elbow joint of the skeleton?