BME- HBP- Neurorobotics- Knowledge memo

• Tools :
  • OpenSim (Wiki)
    
    

    OpenSim is an open source software system for biomechanical modeling, simulation and analysis. Its purpose is to provide free and widely accessible tools for conducting biomechanics research and motor control science. OpenSim enables a wide range of studies, including analysis ofwalking dynamics, studies of sports performance, simulations of surgical procedures, analysis of joint loads, design of medical devices, and animation of human and animal movement. The software performs inversedynamics analysis and forward dynamics simulations. OpenSim is used in hundreds of biomechanics laboratories around the world to study movement and has a community of software developers contributing new features.

    OpenSim is one of the flagship applications from Simbios, a NIH Center for Biomedical Computation atStanford University. Founded in 2004, Simbios is charged with a mandate to provide leading software and computational tools for physics-based modeling and simulation of biological structures. OpenSim was designed to propel biomechanics research by providing a common framework for investigation and a vehicle for exchanging complex musculoskeletal models.

    • OpenSim community(Stanford)
  • Simbody
    
    

    Simbody is a high-performance, open-source toolkit for science- andengineering-quality simulation of articulated mechanisms, includingbiomechanical structures such as human and animal skeletons,mechanical systems like robots, vehicles, and machines, and anythingelse that can be described as a set of rigid bodies interconnectedby joints, influenced by forces and motions, and restricted byconstraints. Simbody includes a multibody dynamics library formodeling motion ingeneralized/internal coordinates in O(n) time.This is sometimes called a Featherstone-style physics engine.

    Simbody provides a C++ API that is used to build domain-specific applications;it is not a standalone application itself. For example, it is used bybiomechanists inOpenSim, by roboticists inGazebo, and for biomolecular research inMacroMoleculeBuilder (MMB).