What is the Dynamics Pipeline?
We offer the Dynamics Pipeline software as an add-on option to the SIMM base package. Dynamics Pipeline connects SIMM to SD/FAST (please see the next question for more details about SD/FAST) to simulate the dynamics of rigid-body systems. The Pipeline is a general-purpose software package that enables users to perform forward and inverse dynamics simulations on musculoskeletal models. For forward dynamics, the user specifies the on/off times of muscles- the Pipeline computes the resulting motions of the body segments. For inverse dynamics, the user specifies the time histories of the joint angles during some activity- the Pipeline calculates the torques required to generate that motion.