I am planning a pilot test (motion capture, 2 force plates, and emg) for walking with cane on both hand.
For external forces from cane, I plan to install a single axial force transducer on the end of the cane to get force between cane and ground. And, I plan to put additional markers on the ~top and ~bottom of the cane to get orientation of the cane.
Is this setting proper to estimate muscle forces in terms of external force as an input?
And, how can I put the force data from the force transducer into the OpenSim simulation? (e.g., position, force, torque in external force .mot file)
Thank you very much for any comments!
Hoon Kim
hkim0625@sch.ac.kr
Department of Sports Medicine
Soonchunhyang University, South Korea