.. _other-recommended-resources:

Other Recommended Resources
===========================

This is a not-particularly-ordered list of resources that might come in handy during
a CBL project.

The intention of these lists is to provide something that's very easy to
scroll through, text search, etc., rather than being a review of each
package. If you think something's missing here then feel free to update
this list!


Core Software
-------------

This is software that you'll likely use at some point during a CBL project:


OpenSim
~~~~~~~

Almost all CBL projects use OpenSim at some point. Even if you're doing everything
via python, it's likely that you will need to use the OpenSim GUI to visualize
your model or run a solver. For Windows/MacOS.


OpenSim Creator
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Fills a similar role to OpenSim GUI, but works on Windows, MacOS, and Ubuntu. The
main benefit of OpenSim Creator is that it's an in-house CBL project, which means
that, as a member of CBL, you can get priority on features/bugfixes.


Matplotlib
~~~~~~~~~~

Almost every scientific project that uses python will use ``matplotlib``. It's
*by far* the most common 2D plotting library, and can be customized to... TODO


Multibody Dynamics
------------------

- `A Quick Tutorial on Multibody Dynamics <https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/865.18/design/optimization/dynamics_1.pdf>`_
- `Physically Based Modeling: Principles and Practice <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~baraff/sigcourse/>`_
- `Simbody Theory Manual <https://simtk.org/docman/view.php/97/1028/SimbodyTheoryManual.pdf>`_

Optimization
------------

- `Numerical Optimal Control <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228398110_Numerical_Optimal_Control?enrichId=rgreq-1084f11b961c0f1499e116707b71a7e7-XXX&enrichSource=Y292ZXJQYWdlOzIyODM5ODExMDtBUzo5OTAzMjUyOTYzNzM4NkAxNDAwNjIyNjA0NzAy&el=1_x_3&_esc=publicationCoverPdf>`_
- `Lecture Notes on Numerical Optimal Control <https://cdn.syscop.de/publications/Diehl2016.pdf>`_


.. _OpenSim: https://simtk.org/projects/opensim