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Min. activation in damped equilibrium model

Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 9:44 am
by william_a
Hi,

I understand that minimum activation in Millard equilibrium muscle model should be nonzero, but what about the damped equilibrium model? Can we have zero muscle activation in the damped version?

Thanks,
William

Re: Min. activation in damped equilibrium model

Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 3:58 pm
by tkuchida
Can we have zero muscle activation in the damped version?
Yes. Please see the following resources:
- Section 2.3 of Millard, M., et al. Flexing computational muscle: modeling and simulation of musculotendon dynamics. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 135(2):021005 (http://nmbl.stanford.edu/publications/p ... rd2013.pdf).
- Documentation for Millard2012EquilibriumMuscle: https://simtk.org/api_docs/opensim/api_ ... ml#details.