Toward Validating a Simplified Muscle Activation Model in SMARTMOBILE

Abstract

In this paper, we apply the validated modeling and simulation environment SMARTMOBILE along with two solvers recently added to its core to the problem of the identification of muscle activation in general motor tasks. The identification of muscle activation is one of the important and still open problems in biomechanics which aims at helping physicians assess an individual therapy for a patient. We address the discrepancy of the results supplied by the proposed simplified muscle activation model to the gait lab data and make an initial analysis of model's parameter sensitivity using validated techniques.