Contact Geometry with Provided Models

[Umer Huzaifa]

Hi there,

I am still learning scripting in Matlab and Python. As a simple exercise, I was loading different models and simulating them for a given amount of time. All the models fall through he ground. I understand that this is because of absence of any movement data. But I wondered if contact physics information was available for the models. On skimming through the .osim files I don't see this information. Are they available elsewhere? I am specifically looking for contact models of gait2392 and gait2354.

Best,
Umer

[Thomas Uchida]

The floor in the visualizer is just an image; it does not apply forces to the model. You can define contact forces between the model and the ground if you wish. The "Building a Dynamic Walker in Matlab" example (https://simtk-confluence.stanford.edu:8 ... +in+Matlab) demonstrates how to do this.