[Opensim-announcement] Webinar on Probabilistic Analyses, New OpenSim Simulation Resources, and More

[Jennifer Hicks]

*Webinar: Enabling Stochastic Simulations of Movement with High Throughput
Computing*

*Wednesday, November 17, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time*

Colin Smith and Darryl Thelen from the University of Wisconsin-Madison will
describe a framework that enables the probabilistic analyses of simulation
results on high throughput computing systems. They will also demo how to run
 OpenSim simulations on the Open Science Grid. Learn more and register
<http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.html?id=169>.


*Solving Inverse Kinematics and Inverse Dynamics in Real-Time*

Claudio Pizzolato, David Lloyd, and Luca Modenese from Griffith University,
Australia and Monica Reggiani from University of Padua, Italy have recently
published their new methods on computing inverse kinematics and inverse
dynamics in real-time in Computer Methods in Bioengineering and Biomedical
Engineering
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10255842.2016.1240789>. This
extension, called the Real-Time OpenSim Extension (RTOSIM), can connect
OpenSim to different devices and perform those calculations on a
frame-by-frame basis. RTOSIM is available on SimTK
<https://simtk.org/projects/rtosim>.



*Simulating Ideal Assistive Devices to Reduce the Metabolic Cost of Running*

Thomas Uchida and colleagues at Stanford University published a paper in PLOS
One
<http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0163417>
where
they simulated running with different ideal assistive devices to examine
the predicted changes in muscle recruitment patterns and metabolic
power consumption. The data underlying the findings are freely available at
https://simtk.org/home/idealassist_run.



*Announcing New OpenSim Fellow*

Dimitra Blana from Keele University in the United Kingdom is our newest
OpenSim Fellow. The OpenSim Fellows Program recognizes OpenSim experts who
will collectively advance and help grow the field of neuro-musculoskeletal
modeling and simulation. Dr. Blana is experienced in musculoskeletal
modeling of the upper limb, particularly the shoulder, as well as in
real-time simulation and optimal control. She was selected as an OpenSim
Visiting Scholar in 2015 and has made significant contributions to the
OpenSim community through her research and dissemination efforts. Learn
more and/or apply <http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/fellows.html> to the
OpenSim Fellows Program



*Diverse Projects Advanced through Recent OpenSim Virtual Workshop*

Last week a group of 35 U.S. and international scholars gathered virtually
and advanced their OpenSim projects during the 2nd OpenSim Virtual
Workshop. Projects covered a range of topics in rehabilitation science
(e.g., tibia loading in children with myelomeningocele, deltoid activation
post-reverse shoulder arthroplasty, and wheelchair propulsion), as well as
new technical developments (e.g., a robotic linear actuator, integration of
automatic differentiation, and OpenSim-finite element simulation
pipelines). Learn more
<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NASW24LapmGHHFOnLh-Y-Qz59fGx13O-5tmWinmrLqw/edit#slide=id.p>
about
the workshop projects and what they accomplished



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and other events, relevant grant announcements, conferences of interest to
the rehab and simulation communities, fellowship/postdoc opportunities, as
well as recent publications that use OpenSim.

-- 
*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 at stanford.edu
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