Suspicious GRF data

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Alex Denton
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Suspicious GRF data

Post by Alex Denton » Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:40 am

Hello,

I am including GRF data along with my moco cap data in my AddBiomechanics process. I noticed my log file includes:

Detected missing/bad GRF data on 54/54 frames
ERROR: we have no good frames of GRF data left after filtering out suspicious GRF frames. This probably means input GRF data is badly miscalibrated with respect to marker data (maybe they are in different coordinate frames?), or there are unmeasured external forces acting on your subject.

The GRF data look sufficient in the OpenSim GUI. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Alex

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Nicholas Bianco
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Re: Suspicious GRF data

Post by Nicholas Bianco » Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:57 pm

Hi Alex,

I would try uploading only a model and marker data to AddBiomechanics to run a kinematics-only analysis to get joint angles. Then, use those joint angles and the GRF data to compute inverse dynamics in OpenSim. That way you can evaluate the quality of the GRF data based on the resulting joint moments.

If the joint moments look right, but AddBiomechanics still complains, then we can investigate deeper to see if there is a bug.

-Nick

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Re: Suspicious GRF data

Post by Alex Denton » Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:30 pm

Hi Nick,

Thank you so much for the feedback. I ran the kinematics-only process in AddBiomechanics, followed by ID in the OpenSim GUI with GRF data. The joint moments were not great.

When processing one full gait cycle in AddBiomechanics the provided GRF are not disregarded as suspicious, though the force and torque residuals are not great. When processing either one left or right step, the GRF data are disregarded and marked as suspicious.

Alex

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Re: Suspicious GRF data

Post by Nicholas Bianco » Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:39 pm

Hi Alex,

When processing only one step, are you still uploading GRF data for both feet? At each time stpe, if AddBiomechanics can't match a GRF source to a foot body in the model it will mark the GRF data as "suspicious".

-Nick

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Alex Denton
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Re: Suspicious GRF data

Post by Alex Denton » Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:20 am

Hi Nick,

Yes, I am uploading GRF for both feet when processing just a single step. It's a typical .mot with 19 columns: 1 for time and 9 for each side. In other words, when processing a left step in AddBiomechanics, I am uploading a .mot with data in columns 2-10, and columns 11-19 are filled with 0s. It loads into the GUI just and visually looks as expected.

I just tried processing a step with GRF data (.mot contained 10 columns) for only the contacting foot but it was still marked as suspicious.

Alex

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