Force Plate Intergration

[Dyson_S]

Hi,

My University has just taken delivery of an 18 camera (V100 R2 - Three OptiHubs) Optitrack system. I would like to integrate it with a kistler force plate that we have. Is there any more information available as to how this may be achieved? Also once a force plate has been integrated, when exporting data from ARENA does the force plate data appear in the C3D file?

Thanks

[NaturalPoint - Mike]

Hello -

At this time, Arena does not support 3rd party device integration. Tracking Tools or a custom application built with the Camera SDK would be the only way to do this. Integration would have to be through the OptiHub.

[bsteagal]

Dyson

C-Motion's Visual3d will integrate data from NP cameras and other devices into a c3d file (using AMASS and Capture which interfaces with the NP cameras) Their software sends a sync signal thru the Optihub to talk to other devices..

[Dyson_S]

Hi Mike,

Any details about how to integrate through the OptiHub? We don't need to motion data and force data to be contained in a single C3D file, just to be synchronized.

Sam


Ps thanks Bryan, I'm aware of this option but unfortunately it is outside our budget

[Dyson_S]

Hi guys,

was able to resolve the issue with the assistance from a colleague from a neighbouring university. Was able to connect the External sync out from the master hub to a trigger port on the force plate amp then use a custom sync in ARENA and a hardware sync in the force plate software.

Sam

[NaturalPoint - Mike]

Ahh, that would work. My apologies for the confusion, the original post did not specify this particular type of synchronization.