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Problem with calibration data

Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:09 am
by mel
Hi

I stumbled on something in the synchronized data which I can't make any sense of.

In "jw_2legsquat_1" the medial and lateral contact force seems to highest when the person is standing upright and decrease during squatting. This seems to counter intuitive.

Here is a plot of the approx knee angle and the contact forces, so you can see what I mean:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1683635/jw_2legSquat_1.pdf

Is there a problem with synchronization between eknee forces and and mocap data?

Regards
Morten

BTW. If anyone have found other oddities in the data set, please share them.

RE: Problem with calibration data

Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:02 pm
by besier
Hi Morten
Sorry for not following up on this thread earlier. The squat trial was a tricky one to synchronise as our common synch signal was actually FP 3 and I only realised afterward that our subject was standing on FP's 1 and 2. The only common signal for me to synchronise was the EMG signal from vastus lateralis, which was our other common signal.

To do this, I low pass filtered the EMG signal from both sources and then performed a cross-correlation to get the synch point. What I am afraid of is that I obtained the minimum value of the cross correlation and not the maximum for this trial, in which case the two signals would be 'out of phase', as you have shown.

I will dig up my code now and take a look.

Again, I apologise for not picking this up earlier.

Thor