What is BoB?
BoB is the leading musculoskeletal analysis package which has been designed for ease of use and rigor in analysis making BoB ideal for both teaching and research. BoB is widely used in academia and industry with applications including product design, sporting performance, equipment design, man/machine interactions, vehicle design, gerontology, manual handling, ergonomics and many more. Bo’s capabilities include:
- Easy data importing from
- C3D (e.g. Vicon / CodaMotion / Qualisys / BTS)
- HPF from Delsys
- MVNx from Xsens
- calc from Perception Neuron
- BVH from Rokoko and others
- Text file
- User-defined equations
- User editable skeleton and muscle models
- Default muscle model contains over 600 locomotor muscle units
- Short learning curve makes BoB ideal for teaching
- Advanced analysis capability makes BoB ideal for research
- Close integration with MATLAB data and processing
- Easy data exchange with MATLAB
- User defined MATLAB Handle Graphics scripts
- Extensive graphics display features
- Calculation of ground reaction forces
- Calculation of joint torques
- Calculation of muscle forces, length and velocities
- Calculation of joint contact forces
- Calculation of centre of mass
- Output of tabulated data, images and videos
- Synchronised EMG display
- Synchronised video display
BoB and MATLAB
BoB is developed in MATLAB and inherits many of MATLAB’s features including manipulation of plots and large data handling.
All of BoB’s stored data files can be directly accessed by MATLAB.
The BoB package contains BoB in P-code enabling BoB to be run within the MATLAB environment enabling the user access to use MATLAB Handle Graphics within BoB integrate user bespoke M-code.
BoB is accredited by the MathWorks Connections Program.
Specifications
PC
- Windows 7 or later.
- Any Intel or AMD x86-64 processor (4 logical cores. recommended)
- Hardware accelerated graphics card supporting OpenGL 3.3 with 1GB GPU memory.
- 16Gb RAM.
- Minimum 5Gb fee disc space.
- Internet access required
Mac
- macOS Catalina (10.15) or later
- Any Intel x86-64 processor (4 logical cores recommended)
- Minimum 4Gb (8Gb recommended) RAM
- OpenGL 3.3 recommended
- Minimum 8Gb free disc space
- Internet access required
