Metabolic cost, Umberger's configuration and parameters

[Arash Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi]

Hello all,

I was wondering how we can find the best configuration of the Umberger model in OpenSim (negative fiber work included, fiber recruitment model enabled, etc)? And, how can we find the best value for the parameters in the setting (look at the attached pictures)?

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Also, do we need to change something in the following code?

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Thank you.

Best,
Arash

[Thomas Uchida]

Please see the following paper for discussion and references:
Uchida, T.K., Hicks, J.L., Dembia, C.L., Delp, S.L. Stretching your energetic budget: how tendon compliance affects the metabolic cost of running. PLOS ONE, 11(3):e0150378, 2016. http://nmbl.stanford.edu/wp-content/upl ... da2016.pdf

Additional detail can be found in the doxygen documentation for the Umberger2010MuscleMetabolicsProbe class:
https://simtk.org/api_docs/opensim/api_ ... Probe.html

[Arash Mohammadzadeh Gonabadi]

Thank you so much for your respond, and my apologies for responding late.

Best,
Arash