Static Optimization NORMALIZATION

[Roberta Furone]

Dear all,
I have a dubt regarding the Static Optimization:
I know that Static optimization tool minimizes the sum of the all the muscle activation's squared, but I haven't understood if each muscles is normalised to the maximum of all muscles or to its respective maximum? If for instance I have 32 muscles in the model the Static normalised each muscle for its maximum?

Thanks a lot.
Roberta

[jimmy d]

Hi Roberta,

The activation of every muscle is between 0 (representing zero percent activation of the muscle) and 1 (representing 100% activation of the muscle). This control signal format is mapped from experimental studies where each muscle activation is normalized against its own maximum.

Cheers,
-james