Problem with Inverse Dynamics in Matlab (OpenSim 4.2)

[Sheeba Davis]

Hi

I encountered 2 issues with Inverse Dynamics in Matlab.

1. Following is the code

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myID = InverseDynamicsTool();
myID.setName('my_subject01_walk1');
myID.set_results_directory('my_ResultsInverseDynamics');
myModel=Model('my_subject01_simbody.osim');
myID.setModel(myModel);
myID.setModelFileName('my_subject01_simbody.osim');  
myID.setStartTime(0.40000000); 
myID.setEndTime(1.6000000);
myID.setExcludedForces(ArrayStr('Muscles'));
myID.setExternalLoadsFileName('subject01_walk1_grf.xml');
myID.setCoordinatesFileName('my_subject01_walk1__ik.mot');
myID.setLowpassCutoffFrequency(6.00000000);
myID.setOutputGenForceFileName('my_inverse_dynamics.sto');
myID.print('myID.xml');

But when i run it: myID.run();, it displays:

Java exception occurred:
java.io.IOException: InverseDynamicsTool Failed, please see messages window for details...

at org.opensim.modeling.opensimActuatorsAnalysesToolsJNI.InverseDynamicsTool_run(Native Method)

at org.opensim.modeling.InverseDynamicsTool.run(InverseDynamicsTool.java:117)

2. The command

myID.setExcludedForces(ArrayStr('Muscles'));

does the work, however it is not reflected in the xml file:

<forces_to_exclude />

I have already checked with API documentation and also used methodsview InverseKinematicsTool()

Thanks in advance,
Sheeba

[Carmichael Ong]

It looks like you tried to call this constructor for ArrayStr: https://simtk.org/api_docs/opensim/api_ ... e1f44c9dd3

However, the second input (aSize) has a default value of 0, so since you didn't give a value for this, it has created an ArrayStr of 0 strings. A couple ways to deal with this:

1. Create an empty ArrayStr, and append the string to it:

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excludedForces = ArrayStr();
excludedForces.append('muscles');
myID.setExcludedForces(excludedForces);

2. Get the constructor of ArrayStr() to make an array with 1 string:

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ArrayStr('muscles', 1)