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During the last years several neuromuscular simulation platforms have been developed, from commercial tools to open-source based solutions to pure in-house solutions which are not public available. A major problem in running neuromuscular simulations in any of these tools are that there exist an infinitive number of motion capture laboratory setups. In this paper, the authors present a Matlab toolbox that provides a solution for this problem. The toolbox can easily be setup for any new experiment with minimal changes to the simulation environment. The toolbox provides powerful pre-simulation features such as filtering, markers evaluations and calculations of new marker setups. After that a simulation has been performed, results can be read back and several post-simulation features are available to validate the simulation.
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Sandholm, A., Pronost, N., Thalmann, D. (2009). MotionLab: A Matlab Toolbox for Extracting and Processing Experimental Motion Capture Data for Neuromuscular Simulations. In: Magnenat-Thalmann, N. (eds) Modelling the Physiological Human. 3DPH 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10470-1_10
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