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Webinar on Reinforcement Learning for Control Strategies, New Below-Knee Amputee Model, and Pilot Project Reminder
by Joy P. Ku 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Webinar: "Robust Control Strategies for Musculoskeletal Models Using Deep Reinforcement Learning" Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at 10:00am Pacific Daylight Time Reinforcement learning is an unsupervised machine learning approach that seeks to take actions to maximize some user-defined performance metric, or reward, thus creating a complex controller for any movement without specific domain knowledge. In this webinar, Łukasz Kidziński from Stanford University will introduce reinforcement learning and its application to developing control strategies. Learn more and register<http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.php?id=203&title=Webinar-…> NCSRR/OpenSim Pilot Project Program Application Deadline: 5pm Pacific Daylight Time on August 1, 2018 The National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR) and OpenSim project at Stanford University seek proposals for our pilot project program. The program awards seed grants to innovative and meritorious projects that will accelerate the use of simulation in rehabilitation research. Pilot project awardees may request funding up to $40,000 for their research. Learn more and apply<http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/pilot.html> Below-Knee Amputee Model that Accounts for Residuum-Socket Interaction When modeling the gait of individuals with lower limb loss who use a prosthesis, the motion and loads of the residual limb inside the socket are typically not captured and thus, cannot be included in the model. Andrew LaPre and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts @ Amherst have developed a below-knee amputee model that includes a residuum-socket joint with zero to 6 degrees of freedom (DOFs). They used a global optimization technique and anatomical constraints to find the parameters for the interface, including the DOFs, that best satisfied both experimental data and data from the literature. Read more about their model and process for making it patient-specific in their publication "Approach for Gait Analysis in Persons with Limb Loss Including Residuum and Prosthesis Socket Dynamics."<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cnm.2936> You can download the model from https://simtk.org/projects/bkamputee_model/. --- Joy P. Ku, PhD Project Manager, SimTK<http://simtk.org/> Director of Communications & Training, NCSRR<http://opensim.stanford.edu/> Director of Communications & Engagement, Mobilize Center<http://mobilize.stanford.edu/> Stanford University (w) 650.736.8434, (f) 650.723.7461 Email: joyku(a)stanford.edu

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Learn more about OpenSim at WCB in Dublin; Apply for a Pilot Project
by Jennifer Hicks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

*Visit the OpenSim Booth at the World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin* *July 8-12, 2018, Booth #6*The OpenSim project will be running our first ever conference booth and we invite you to visit and participate in a diverse set of events. We are organizing activities to bring together the OpenSim community, including: - Demos highlighting some of the latest research with OpenSim - Opportunities to meet OpenSim users with similar research interests or from the same geographic location - Raffles and a competition to win cool, new OpenSim apparel We look forward to seeing you in Dublin! Visit us at Booth #6. See the complete schedule of events <https://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu:8443/display/OpenSim/World+Congress+2…> . *OpenSim Featured in Over 80 Abstracts at WCB 2018* The OpenSim community is making a big showing at the World Congress in Dublin. We searched the program for abstracts using OpenSim and found over 80. Check out the titles and schedule <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V4fFOHIOrsRgIhyJy9IyyNN_LFfbi8ihUfd…>. If we missed your talk, please let us know and we will add it to the list! *Apply for an OpenSim Pilot Project Grant up to $40,000Applications Due August 1, 2018The National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR) and OpenSim project at Stanford seek proposals for our pilot project program. The program awards seed grants to innovative and meritorious projects that will accelerate the use of simulation in rehabilitation research. Pilot project awardees may request funding (up to $40,000) for their research. Learn more and apply. <http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/pilot.html> * -- *Jennifer Hicks, Ph.D.* Director of Data Science | Mobilize Center <http://mobilize.stanford.edu> Associate Director | NCSRR <http://www.stanford.edu/group/opensim/about/index.html> R&D Manager | OpenSim <http://opensim.stanford.edu/> Stanford University 650-498-4403 | jenhicks(a)stanford.edu

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