December 2010 - Opensim-announcement

Announcing visiting scholars program
by opensim-announcement＠simtk.org 18 Dec '10

18 Dec '10

The new National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR) is now accepting applications for its visiting scholars program NCSRR seeks to bring the power of engineering simulation to rehabilitation. The Center has developed a state-of-the-art simulation tool – OpenSim (http://simtk.org/home/opensim) - that is already used by hundreds of research teams around the world. In addition, it provides training opportunities, seed grants, and a network of biomechanical and clinical experts to accelerate the integration of simulations into critical areas of rehabilitation.Our visiting scholars program is a unique experience that fosters expertise and collaborations in biomechanical simulations for rehabilitation research. Each year up to four individuals will be chosen to visit NCSRR at Stanford University for a 10-week period from mid-June to late-August. Each visiting scholar will receive a $12,000 stipend, plus up to $3000 for travel expenses. During their visits, awardees will receive training and mentoring to help them reach their research goals. They will have the opportunity to participate in formal meetings, discussions with OpenSim experts, and brainstorming sessions with their fellow visiting scholars to advance their research and the OpenSim project.Applications are due on January 17, 2011. For more information and applications, visit our website: http://opensim.stanford.edu _______________________________________________ Joy P. Ku, PhD Director of Dissemination, Simbios http://simbios.stanford.edu Director of Communications & Training, National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research http://opensim.stanford.edu (W) 650.736.8434, (F) 650.723.7461 Email: joyku(a)stanford.edu Reply Forward

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OpenSim Project, how to contribute
by opensim-announcement＠simtk.org 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Dear OpenSim user, If you are a new user or an experienced user of OpenSim you can contribute to the project in many different ways: - Report bugs using the Help->Report Bug... option of the OpenSim Application's User Interface. - Request features that you think would be useful using the Help-> Request Feature... option of the OpenSim Application. - Participate in the user forum at https://simtk.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282 This also serves as a good place to ask questions, get help and collaborate with other users working on similar problems. - If you develop models and or plugins using the OpenSim API let us and the user community know about them using the above forum or the developers forum at https://simtk.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=283. - If you'd like early access to new functionality coming down the pipeline and also help test new releases before they come out, please subscribe to the mailing list at https://simtk.org/mailman/listinfo/opensim-testers or let us know by email using the "contact" link https://simtk.org/sendmessage.php?touser=1986 on the project's home page. - If you develop movies either demonstrating specific functionality or just a cool simulation that you made using OpenSim that you'd like to share, let us know and we'll post it to our gallery of examples, or otherwise make it available to the user community. - If you have any other ideas or suggestions to help the user community please let us know about them using the user forum. Best regards, -Ayman Habib On behalf of Scott Delp and the OpenSim team.

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New version of OpenSim now available
by opensim-announcement＠simtk.org 07 Dec '10

07 Dec '10

Dear OpenSim user, OpenSim version 2.2 is now available for download. OpenSim is freely available to the biomechanics research community and enables modeling and simulation of human and animal movement, including inverse dynamics analysis and forward dynamic simulation. The new version contains enhancements to the user interface, the ability to set bounds on activations when solving static optimization, and the ability to run forward dynamic simulations using controls provided as a storage file. It also contains a new robust moment arm solver and upgrades the dynamics engine to Simbody version 2.1. Updated examples, Doxygen documentation, Developer's Guide and User Guide are also included. The new version works out of the box on Windows 7 machines, and API distributions on linux & Mac are also available. The software, models, tutorials, and example simulations are available at the project website: https://simtk.org/home/opensim. We will start a Webinar series to demonstrate the functionality available in OpenSim early next year. Best regards, -Ayman Habib On behalf of Scott Delp and the OpenSim team.

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OpenSim Project, how to contribute
by opensim-announcement＠simtk.org 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Dear OpenSim user, If you are a new user or an experienced user of OpenSim you can contribute to the project in many different ways: - Report bugs using the Help->Report Bug... option of the OpenSim Application's User Interface. - Request features that you think would be useful using the Help-> Request Feature... option of the OpenSim Application. - Participate in the user forum at https://simtk.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282 This also serves as a good place to ask questions, get help and collaborate with other users working on similar problems. - If you develop models and or plugins using the OpenSim API let us and the user community know about them using the above forum or the developers forum at https://simtk.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=283. - If you'd like early access to new functionality coming down the pipeline and also help test new releases before they come out, please subscribe to the mailing list at https://simtk.org/mailman/listinfo/opensim-testers or let us know by email using the "contact" link on https://simtk.org/home/opensim. - If you develop movies either demonstrating specific functionality or just a cool simulation that you made using OpenSim that you'd like to share, let us know and we'll post it to our gallery of examples, or otherwise make it available to the user community. - If you have any other ideas or suggestions to help the user community please let us know about them using the user forum. Best regards, -Ayman Habib On behalf of Scott Delp and the OpenSim team.

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New version of OpenSim now available
by opensim-announcement＠simtk.org 02 Dec '10

02 Dec '10

Dear OpenSim user, OpenSim version 2.2 is now available for download. OpenSim is freely available to the biomechanics research community and enables modeling and simulation of human and animal movement, including inverse dynamics analysis and forward dynamic simulation. The new version contains enhancements to the user interface, the ability to set bounds on activations when solving static optimization, and the ability to run forward dynamic simulations using controls provided as a storage file. It also contains a new robust moment arm solver and upgrades the dynamics engine to Simbody version 2.1. Updated examples, Doxygen documentation, Developer's Guide and User Guide are also included. The new version works out of the box on Windows 7 machines, and API distributions on linux & Mac are also available. The software, models, tutorials, and example simulations are available at the project website: https://simtk.org/home/opensim. We will start a Webinar series to demonstrate the functionality available in OpenSim early next year. Best regards, -Ayman Habib On behalf of Scott Delp and the OpenSim team.

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