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AIO for September 14, 2015 Last week's accomplishments UCD [Done] RSVP for new faculty mixer. [Done] RSVP for new faculty reception. EME 150A [Done] Get access to the solution manual [Done] Develop idea for project one and create materials [Done] Refine the syllabus [Done] Refine the lecture schedule [Done] Introduce …

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AIO for September 10, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Olin Visit [Done] Book rooms UCD [Done] Purchase med center bus tickets [Done] Sign up for showers [Done] Fix email EME 150A Get access to the solution manual Get listed in Banner and Smartsite access [Done] Create course website [Done] Create syllabus …

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AIO for September 3, 2015 Before Quarter Goals 31 - 6 Fix up website Syllabus Create 150A course website Get office! Order computer 7 - 13 Design assignments Move stuff into office Setup any course software Prepare first lectures 14 - 20 Prepare first lectures Visit Olin 21 - 27 Orientation workshop Meet with …

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AIO for July 1, 2015 Last week's accomplishments PyDy [2 hr, Done] Change the notebook to use the System class so we can rerun simulations. [2 hr, Done] Close remaining issues in the tutorial [1 hr, Done] Update tutorial to work with Python 3 [1 hr, Done] Confer with Jim …

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AIO for June 22, 2015 Last week's accomplishments PyDy [1 hr, Done 3 hr] Review and merge the Python 3 support PR. [1 hr, Done 3.3 hr] Review and merge Sahil's changes to the static directory copying. [5 hr, Done 2 hr] Close all remaining issues for the release …

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AIO for June 15, 2015 Last week's accomplishments PyDy [16 hr, Done 24 hr] Fix all remaining 0.3.0 milestone bugs in PyDy and make the release. [0.5 hr, Done 0.3 hr] Respond to mailing list about Sahil's API desing. [0.5 hr, Done] Rally the devs …

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AIO for June 8, 2015 This AIO reflects the period of May 25 to June 7. Last week's accomplishments Job Search [0.5 hr, Done] Email Dr. Eke about Sac State. [0.5 hr, Done] Email Dr. Joshi. [1 hr, Done] Look through UCD and Sac State job openings. PyDy …

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AIO for May 19, 2015 Last week's accomplishments PyDy [10 hr, Done 2.2 hr] Work on issues for the release. Gait Control Direct ID Paper [10 hr, Done 12.2 hr] Write! [5 hr, Done 30 min] Implement the Wang/Srinivasan work? [10 hr, Done 2.2 hr] Plots …

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AIO for May 11, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Gait Control Direct ID Paper [5 hr, 4.4 hr] Finish all plots for each of the results sections. [5 hr, 0.9 hr] Flesh out all of the first draft text. [2 hr, 1.3 hr] Writeup the concerns as issues …

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AIO for May 5, 2015 Last week's accomplishments EPak AIP Project [1.5 hr, Done 0.6 hr] Review the contract and sign up. PyDy [2 hr, Done 0.5 hr] Help initiate Sahil's work. Get the lead mentor setup and whatever info is needed. [1 hr, Done 0.7 …

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AIO for April 27, 2015 This is for the last two weeks since I skipped last week's AIO. Last week's accomplishments Gait Control Direct ID Paper [3 hr, Done] Regenerate all of the identification results for artificial data. [3 hr, Done 3.2 hr] Get all notebooks working with new …

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AIO for April 13, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Gait Control Direct ID Paper [10 hr, Done 14.4 hr] Figure out the marker time stamp issue. [10 hr, Mostly done 3 hr] Regenerate all the plots. Yeadon Software Paper [0.5 hr, Done 0.3 hr] Paste in the reviewer …

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AIO for April 6, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Gait Control Direct ID Paper [15 hr, Done 14.2 hr] Finish up the inverse dynamics speedup. [5 hr, Not Done 7.8 hr] Get all the plots in place in the paper. [5 hr, Not Done 7.3 hr] Flesh out …

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AIO for April 1, 2015 Last week's accomplishments This covers the last two weeks March 16-29. Perturbed Data Paper [2 hr, Done 5] Adjust paper to better delineate the pilot trials from finalized protocol trials. [2 hr, Done 4] Fix Ton's other comments [1 hr, Done 0.5 hr] Submit …

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AIO for March 16, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Perturbed Data Paper [15 hr, done 11.7 hr] Close all remaining issues. [0.5 hr, done] Have Ton and Sandy review the changes and the response to the reviewers. All changes since first submission can be viewed here: https://github.com …

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AIO for March 10, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Quiet Standing Identification Paper [0.6 hr] Worked on packaging opty for conda. [4.9 hr] Tried to animate the SVG with matplotlib and worked on the PyDy 3D animation. [3.7 hr] Specified the acceleration inputs more precisely based on some …

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AIO for March 2, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Yeadon Paper [5 hr, Done 4.7 hr] Finish and submit the second revision by March 1. Second revision is here: https://github.com/chrisdembia/python-yeadon-paper Perturbed Data Paper [15 min, Done 20 min] Respond to PeerJ about my concerns with the …

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AIO for February 24, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Yeadon Paper [5 hr, Done 2.6 hr] Fix as many issues as I can and prod others to do so. Our self-imposed deadline is the 23rd for the revision. Fixed a bunch of stuff. New deadline is March 1 for the …

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AIO for February 16, 2015 Last week's accomplishments Yeadon Paper [30 min, Done 30 min] Email authors to start the second revision process and open some new Github issues. All issues are here: https://github.com/chrisdembia/python-yeadon-paper/issues [Additional, 1.3 hr] Fixed the syntax highlighting issue and helped …

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AIO for February 9, 2015 Last week(s)'s accomplishments I didn't do an AIO for a while, so this is stuff since the last one. Rando Completed everything to be a SWC instructor and am now officially an instructor. I'm going to teach a workshop at UC Irvine in …

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AIO for January 14, 2015 Last week's accomplishments These were the accomplishements from the last few weeks. CSU [0.5 hr, Done] Turn in keys on Friday and get signature. [0.5 hr, Done] Get signature from the cashier's office last on Friday. [0.5 hr, Done] Turn in paperwork …

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AIO for December 16, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Other [3 hr, Done 0.5 hr] Fill out termination forms and do whatever I need to do to end my position. [1 hr, Done] Check in with Ton about contract and get that finished up. [1 hr, Done] Clear out books …

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AIO for December 9, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Perturbed Data Paper [18 hr, Closer to done 14 hr] Finish all remaining issues and prepare the draft for submission. Picked a working title Added in journal styles Create participant and trial tables + source code Add syntax highlighting lib Got all exploratory …

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AIO for December 2, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Perturbed Data Paper [8 hr, Done 17.5 hrs] Knock of tasks: https://github.com/csu-hmc/perturbed-data-paper/issues https://github.com/csu-hmc/perturbed-data-paper/issues/19 https://github.com/csu-hmc/perturbed-data-paper/issues/10 https://github.com/csu-hmc/perturbed-data-paper/issues/30 https://github.com …

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AIO for November 25, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Opty [4 hr, Done 6.2 hr] Complete the midpoint integration implementation and test it on my example problems. The parameter id problems converge better due to the lack of damping in the integration method. This commit marks the changes: https://github …

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AIO for November 18, 2014 Last week's accomplishments GaitAnalysisToolKit [3 hr, Done 2 hr] Show Sabrina how to install and assign her an issue. Peturbed Walking Data Paper [0.5 hr, Done 0.5 hr] Merge Sandy's PR. Website [2 hr, Done 1 hr] Go over server maintenance stuff with …

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AIO for November 12, 2014 Last week's accomplishments [6 hr] Reworked direct collocation software into a package: https://github.com/csu-hmc/opty [3 hr] Updated hmc.csuohio.edu Plone installation and maintenance instructions: https://github.com/csu-hmc/hmc.csuohio.edu [0.5 hr] Wrote to HR with some questions and …

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AIO for October 29, 2014 Last week's accomplishments [7 hr, Done 7 hr] CSU Open Access Symposia Met some cool folks from the CSU library, U of Toledo, and Emory University. Nice symposia. [Done] Go on a bicycle ride through Phnom Phen. Other Ate a meal of bugs. Biked around …

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AIO for October 21, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Inverted Pendulum Paper [1 hr, Done ~ 2 hr] Finish SymPy reserved words PR. This fixed some issues related to computing the symbolic Jacobian of the walking model. (#8199_, #8200_) [5 hr, Done ~ 5 hr] Implement simulation with process noise, measurement noise (both …

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A few notes on the Matlab and Python ODE integrators. Matlab Integrators Non-stiff ode45 : Runge-Kutta (4, 5), Dormand-Prince pair | dopri5 ode23 : Runge-Kutta (2,3) pair of Bogacki and Shampine ode113 : variable order Adams-Bashforth-Moulton PECE Stiff ode15s : variable order based on numerical differentation formulas (optionally use BDF backward diff formula) ode23s …

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AIO for October 14, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week: Walking System ID [1 hr, Done 0.7 hr] Read Manoj's recent paper. The paper was ok, nothing revolutionary. They basically found linear correlatiosn between the current state of the hip and the next placement of the foot …

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AIO for October 7, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week: Inverted Pendulum Parameter Estimation Source [4 hr, Done took 6 hr] Implement general time specific constraints, like x(0) = 0. See this commit: https://github.com/csu-hmc/inverted-pendulum-sys-id/commit/7face7257f025fbc8b9f95c6005ceb9f87b1e048 [1 hr, Done took 2 hr] Add Ton's …

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AIO for September 30, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week: Lab Stuff [0.5 hr took 1.9 hr] Make sure that the hmc.csuohio.edu offsite backup can be restored. -- Done: offsite website backups work and can be fully restored. [0.5 hr] Undo the review workflow …

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AIO for September 23, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week Lab Stuff [6 hr, took 9.6 hr] Create a presentation for the lab seminar on the 17th. -- Done: http://www.moorepants.info/presentations/2014/csu-fall-hmc-seminar/fall-csu-hmc-seminar.slides.html Perturbed Walking Data Paper [1 hr, took 1.6 …

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AIO for September 16, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week I spent 12.2 hours on the steer torque paper work instead of the 9.5 I projected. [3 hours] Finish table in the steer torque paper. Update the spreadsheet and insert into the latex doc. -- Done: https …

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AIO for September 9, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week: Fix the permissions issues for offline backups for the HMC website. -- Done, the backups are now collecting on my server twice a month. See https://github.com/csu-hmc/hmc.csuohio.edu#backup for details of the implementation. Implement …

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AIO for September 2, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week: Finish implementing a tight matrix eval broadcasted loop to speed up the inverted pendulum direct collocation. -- Partially done: Speed benchmarks are done with C with Cython and Fortran 95 with f2py. The constraint eval computation speed was doubled …

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AIO for August 26th, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Objectives from last week: Finish NCSRR blog post (Monday): Done, http://www.moorepants.info/blog/ncsrr-wrap-up.html Submit GSoC student review (Monday): Done. Email GSoC mentors about submitting review (Monday): Done. Meet with David Pendleton and Taylor Barto about IEEE hack nights …

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AIOI for August 18th, 2014 Last week's accomplishments Starting fresh Last week's issues Starting fresh This week's objectives Finish NCSRR blog post (Monday) Submit GSoC student review (Monday) Email GSoC mentors about submitting review (Monday) Meet with David Pendleton and Taylor Barto about IEEE hack nights (Tuesday @ 5:30) Setup …

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AOI for July 31 to August 7 A Read and organized Tim/Jack's predictive sim code. Completed an opensim planar walking model that matches Gait2D. Discussed dynamics software with Sherm. Mentored GSoC students and prepared for final two weeks. Contributed to a System class to help Tarun move forward. Met …

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AOI for July 25 to July 30 A The n-link inverted pendulum on a cart system id with direct collocation now works. Preliminary tests show that up to 24 gains on a 3 link pendulum can be identified from noisy data using 50-100 hz discretization sampling and up to 10000 …

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Some optimizers I found. https://github.com/ifa-ethz/ecos http://www.cvxpy.org/en/latest/ https://github.com/cvxgrp/scs http://cvxopt.org/ http://worhp.de/ http://cvxgen.com/docs/index.html

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A NMBL AOI for my first week or so. AOI Accomplishments Prepared and gave a NCSRR visiting scholar kickoff talk. Met with Jen, Ajay, and Jimmy about 5 week goals. Completed most of the orientation here at Stanford. Setup a new opensim dev env on linux based on the new …

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NCSRR 5 week plan. NCSRR Biweekly Plan Started on Monday July 14 Thursday Jul 17 Prepare and give kickoff talk Setup latest Opensim/Simbody dev environment Read some papers to get an idea of scale limits in NLP problems with IPOPT and/or SNOPT Complete all the orientation stuff for …

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uh, trying to use IPopt in Python. Ipopt installation I tried to install from the Ubuntu repos, but had trouble linking to it or running the example: $ sudo aptitude install coinor-libipopt1 coinor-libipopt-dev coinor-libipopt-doc So then I removed it: $ sudo aptitude remove coinor-libipopt1 coinor-libipopt-dev coinor-libipopt-doc The Ipopt documentation gives very nice …

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I didn't really understand the difference in prediction and simulation in the system id book. These are some notes that help clarify it. This is from Ljung: We shall generally work with k-step ahead model predictions \(\hat{y}_k(t|m)\) as the basis of the comparisons. By that we …

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Some thoughts on system identification of planar walking control with direct collocation. The system's equations: \begin{equation*} -gm_t - m_t\dot{v}_t - F_c + F_p = 0 \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} -c\Delta y - gm_f - k\Delta y - m_f\dot{v}_f - F_a - F_o + F_c = 0 \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} c\Delta …

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This is potentially a very simple way to think about what we measure and estimate from force plate and motion capture data during gait and how it connects to the active forces we generate from our muscles for control. To avoid non-linearities and keep things simple here is a three …

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Some on sparse matrix solve speed. The sparse solvers in scipy don't necessarily seem faster but these are tiny matrices. In [1]: from scipy import sparse In [6]: a = sparse.lil_matrix([[1., 0.], [0., 4.]]) In [7]: a Out[7]: <2x2 sparse matrix of type '' with 2 …

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Top priorities HMC research project and resulting papers, conferences, etc Publishing my personal research (that which may or may not be related to what we do in the HMC lab). Submit funding proposals Secondary PyDy development, including GSoC mentoring/organizing Applying for long term jobs, mostly tenure track academic positions …

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[x] Get travis testing working on DynamicistToolKit. There are issues with the Cython version, numpy version to build pandas. [x] Clean up and make a release of Dynamicist toolkit [x] Try the HBM.exe file with Wine (it works). [x] Send Alex Clark's quote through to CSU purchasing. [x] Email …

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[x] Setup new computer and write a script that fully installs the system. [x] Select a quote and start working with the consultant. [x] Enable intranet/external workflow. [x] Check on and order stuff from Newegg. [x] Turn in Newegg reimbursement. [x] Check on docking stations. [x] Order Matlab DSP …

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[x] Wrote script to automate my personal machine installation [x] Prepare the gyro bike non-linear and linear models for the senior design group. [x] Send the main bicycle papers to senior design group. [x] Make an information web page for the senior design group. [x] Build simbody and opensim Gyrobike …

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Tasks [x] Validate the identified walking control model on different data [x] Send out latest walking ID results [x] Learn C the hard way: Exercise 13 Walking System Identification Over the weekend I setup the SimpleControlSolver to validate the identified model against different data than that used for the identification …

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Make control contribution plots by taking average of sensors Started a people page on the website Final evaluation for Tarun [September 27] Request quotes from Plone dev to do all this stuff. Got my work computer finally. Brought the gyrobike to the lab. Walking System Identification I've added a few …

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Purchasing [x] Check on computer and docking stations. [x] Check on Newegg order. Lab Website [x] Enable MathJax BMD 2013 Whipple ID Paper [x] Generated R^2 values table for different models versus different data sets. [x] Copy table from thesis that shows the mean VAF for simulating the models …



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Test out being perturbed on the treadmill while walking Go over Tarun's final PRs and decide what's in and out for the GSoC deadline Meet with Tarun Run the JS tests in pydy-viz Contact Mike about senior design projects Help Sandy with visualizing the inertial compensation results Tidy up PyDy …

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[x] Work with Ms. Barclay to get the sub-domain (hmc.csuohio.edu) [x] Cut down several sections in the Whipple ID paper for BMD2013 [x] Posted NSF grant announcement to social media [x] Reviewed Tarun's final pull requests hmc.csuohio.edu Ms. Barclay finally routed hmc.csuohio.edu to our …

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Today's task list: [x] Review Tarun's PRs [x] Work on the website content and structure [x] Do CITI course [x] Lab meeting [x] investigate displaying publications on the website [] Work on BMD papers [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Working on wrapping Ton's walking models [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post …

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Today's task list: [x] Review Tarun's and Sachin's PRs [x] Work on the website content and structure [] Work on BMD papers [~] Do CITI course [x] Work on parsing the walking data [x] Submit PyCon proposals [] Working on wrapping Ton's walking models [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright …

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Today's task list: [] Work on BMD papers [~] Do CITI course [x] Work on parsing the walking data [x] Working on wrapping Ton's walking models [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim model or …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on BMD papers [x] Do CITI course [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim model or Ton's 2D model [x] Wrap the …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [x] Work on BMD papers [x] Meet with Tarun [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim model or Ton's 2D model [] Wrap the …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim model or Ton's 2D model [] Wrap the HBM C code [] Duplicate website …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [?] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim model or Ton's 2D model [x] Wrap the HBM C code [] Duplicate …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [x] Talk to Tommie Barclay about domain name [x] Read Sandy's report [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Read Sandy's report [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright [] Finish reading the van der Kooij paper [] See if our controller can drive an OpenSim model or Ton's 2D model [~] Sit down with Ton …

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Today's task list: [] Duplicate website backups on a S3 bucket [] Work on the website theme [] Order Matlab [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about …

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Today's task list: [x] Email HR about other post docs [x] Email HR about shower facilities [x] Setup a data backup for the website [] Duplicate website backups on a S3 bucket [x] Work on the website theme [x] Setup our new computers and monitors [] Order Matlab [] Work on parsing the …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Setup a data backup for the website [] Work on the website theme [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel for BMD [] Post update about BMD copyright …

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Today's task list: [x] Lab meeting [x] Walk for Obinna's experiments [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Setup a data backup for the website [] Work on the website theme [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Work on BMD papers [] Book hotel …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Setup a data backup for the website [] Work on the website theme [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [x] Work on BMD papers [x …

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Today's task list: [] Work on parsing the walking data [~] Make generic settings on the lab website [~] Setup a data backup for the website [] Work on the website theme [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [] Work on BMD papers [] Book flight for …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [x] SymPy dev [x] Review Tarun's code [x] Meet with Tarun [x] Get pydy_viz js tests working with Travis [x] Go over walking controller with Sandy [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Setup a …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [x] SymPy and PyDy dev [] Review Tarun's code [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Setup a data backup for the website [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Setup a data backup for the website [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [] Work on BMD papers [] Book flight …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [] Work on BMD papers [x] Register for BMD [] Book flight for BMD [] Book …

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Today's task list: [x] Motek training, Day Three [x] Fix the budgeting and purchasing issues [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [] Work on …

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Today's task list: [x] Motek training, Day Two [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Fix the budgeting and purchasing issues [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [] Work on BMD …

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Today's task list: [x] Motek training, Day One [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Fix the budgeting and purchasing issues [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id [] Work on …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Fix the budgeting and purchasing issues [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper [] Run variations in guesses for structural id Walking System Identification Load data. Find the …

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Today's task list: [x] Work on parsing the walking data [] Make generic settings on the lab website [] Work on the website theme [] Fix the budgeting and purchasing issues [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper Walking System Identification Load data. Find the heel strike and toe-off for each foot …

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Today's task list: [x] Do D-Flow/Cortex tutorial (Due August 12) [x] Finish setting up the web site [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Work on the website theme [] Figure out what to do about the incorrect budget category for the computers [] Review the TODO items on the Yeadon paper …

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Today's task list: [x] Discuss copyright issues with BMD [x] Install our production Plone site on the new AWS server [x] Met with Tarun about GSoC [] Work on parsing the walking data [] Work on the website theme [] Figure out what to do about the incorrect budget category for the computers …

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Today's task list: [x] Install Zotero [x] Archive Simon Grant's thesis [x] Discuss copyright issues with BMD and blog about it [x] Setup our webserver on AWS [x] Figure out the bug I'm getting at the end of page 153 on the plone book [x] Work on parsing the walking …

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Today's task list: [x] Send code for theano and sympy [x] Work on parsing the walking data [~] Figure out the bug I'm getting at the end of page 153 on the plone book [] Work on the website theme [] Figure out what to do about the incorrect budget category for the …

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Today's task list: [x] Try to contact Amazon business sales again [x] Setup PO and account for AWS [x] Get a quote for Matlab [x] Continue discussion with Adam Leeper about MGView [x] Start on a html5/css3 bootstrap mockup of the website [x] Finish Chapter 8 (Theming) in the …

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Today's task list: [x] Call Alyssa from Matlab [] Figure out what to do about the incorrect budget category for the computers [] Make sure I'm using the correct data for the structural id [~] Read and do exercises in Chapter 8 (Themeing) in the Plone book [] Order Matlab [] Work on parsing the …

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Today's task list: [x] Finish ordering electronic workbench stuff (waiting on PO stuff) [x] Email Amazon Web Services business sales [x] Get reimbursement forms from Patsy [x] Turn in PO's to Patsy [x] Rerun the for plant #2 no K estimation for Ron to check values [~] Figure out what to …

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Today's task list: [~] Finish ordering electronic workbench stuff (waiting on PO stuff) [x] Talk with Jenny Jia about purchasing issues (AWS, newegg, etc) [x] Review Tarun's latest code additions [x] Read and do exercises in Chapter of Professional Plone Development [] Get reimbursement forms from Patsy [] Order Matlab [] Work on parsing …

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Today's task list: [x] Lab meeting [x] Call HR to discuss retirement and medical options [x] Choose medical benefits packages (Due August 8) [x] Finish computer purchase paperwork and send it in [x] Send questions to Matlab rep [~] Order electronic workbench stuff [~] Read and do exercises in Chapter of Professional …

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Today's task list: [x] Ask Patsy about Amazon payments [x] Post lab grand opening photos [~] Call HR to discuss retirement options (left message) [x] GSoC Midterm Evaluations (Due July 31st) [x] Get reimbursed for moving expenses [x] Load drivers for printer in lab [x] Push code and data for structural …

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Today's task list: [x] Push yesterday's notebook [x] Review Tarun's timeline [~] Run structural identifications for Dr. Hess [x] Mingle and chat at the lab grand opening Finish computer purchase paperwork and send it in Read and do exercises in Chapter of Professional Plone Development Reply to Open Science email Review …

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Today's task list: [x] Check on and pick up keys [x] Figure out how vacation time is taken [x] Meet with Tarun [GSoC] [x] Install Matlab [x] Test structural id code on new version Matlab Run structural identifications for Dr. Hess Finish computer purchase paperwork and send it in Read …

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Today's task list: [x] Write up findings on cost of Matlab and use with AWS [x] Talk to Patsy about purchasing our stuff and the AWS account [x] Order computers Install Matlab Run structural identifications for Dr. Hess [x] Read and do exercises in Chapter of Professional Plone Development Reply …