Award given to Prof. John Rasmussen 

The Danish foundation Vanfoerefonden (The Foundation of the Disabled) has given it's 2007 Research Award  to John Rasmussen, head of the AnyBody Research Project. The award which comes with a cheque of DKK 100 000 (EUR 15000) is given to a researcher "who is doing research which helps making life easier for the disabled".
Congratulations to John!

John Rasmussen together with Hanne Klitgard Larsen, the winner of the Encouragement Award

Upcoming webcast 

Previous webcasts

Many previous webcasts have been recorded and are now available for download and replay. Recent ones are

• Validation of the AnyBody version of the Dutch Shoulder Model by the in-vivo measurement of GH contact forces by Bergmann et al.
• Biomechanics and Computer-Aided Ergonomics
• Kinematic Analysis of Over-determinate Systems
• Scaling strength in human simulation models
• A generic detailed rigid-body lumbar spine model
• The Seated Human

Events: Meet AnyBody at...

12-14 June: SAE Digital Human Modeling Conference, Seattle, WA, USA

27-29 June: ISB Footwear Biomechanics Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan

28-30 June: ISB Computer Simulation in Biomechanics symposium, Tainan, Taiwan

Determination of scaling effect in muscles/segments of different animals

The goal of this rather unique project at University at Buffalo, State University of New York, done by Madusudanan Sathia Narayanan as part of his graduate work is to create a musculoskeletal model of a crab leg and implement the appropriate scaling schemes to quantitatively obtain the results related to tuning of muscles to their natural frequency and optimum energy consumption. The data obtained from motion capture recordings of the crab motion is used to build the model.

Tips and trick #8: Running AnyBody in batch mode

Most of us hate doing the same task over and over again. You don't need to do this with AnyBody. The AnyBody Modeling System comes with a command line version included. It is named AnyBodyCon.exe ("Con" for console application), and you will find it in the directory where you install AnyBody. The command line version is - as the name indicates - a version of the AnyBody Modeling System with the user interface stripped off. This means that it is executed from a DOS command prompt or - more importantly - by a batch file or another software application.

The Interface Features tutorial lesson 5 explains how to run the console app.

AnyBody publications

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Sincerely
The AnyBody Team.