Development of Cortex®-to-OpenSim file transfer platform for motion capture-based dynamic simulation of biomechanical models

The human gait is one of the most important movements for the development of the human being life. It represents a sequence of synchronized movements of the joints and muscles activations of the lower limbs. The knowledge of how those movements are performed, taking into account the biomechanical foundations and the physiology of the elements involved, is very important in order to be able to identify certain pathologies and make comparisons between them and normal gait for particular parameters. One way of studying the gait kinematics and kinetics is through a gait analysis. A gait analysis allows to determining the spatio-temporal location of markers placed in landmarks of the body subject in study using cameras and sensors. In the Center for Motion Analysis of the Simón Bolívar University it is used the software Cortex^® to editing and processing this captured data. The aim of this work is to develop a platform for transferring these files from Cortex^® into the open-source software OpenSim for performing further dynamic analyses.