Currently, I am using LabView to collect / control ex vivo muscle mechanics (length, activation, and force) of mouse muscles by running it through different strain trajectories and activation phases. It seems it has been difficult to find someone around me to help with changing the LabView program to something slightly different than what we control now. It is generally a steady state activation, controlling the amount of cycles, and when the muscle is activated. Our lab would like to do something more complex than that. We do have a dynamic activator now that we have used MatLab with to control the activator, but it is limited by what the dynamic activator is able to understand.
I am looking for anyone who has used MatLab for more complex muscle activation in ex vivo experiments? Or even someone who is able to help change the LabView code to do these complex experiment protocols?
I don't really know about MATLab, but if you want to be able to change from labview to a scientific language, you can look to python.
First, in order to help you, one has to know what are the components of your system, brand or drivers.
Second, it is absolutly unclear what is limiting your set-up. Is your actuator limited ?
We've made some electronics components to drive synthetic muscle, we drive it with raspberry using python without any issue. I don't really understand on what kind of muscle you want to work with servomotors.
Do you want to strain the mouse muscle with mechanical actuator or do you want to use electric stimulation and measure the force and length variation ?
Sometime it cost less to buy new sensors and actuators that are compatible with your language than trying to redevelop the solution using existing rig.
We have developed Crappy for all this kind of work, it is not MATLab but python, but it surely allows to do what your looking for.
https://github.com/LaboratoireMecaniqueLille/crappy
https://crappy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Feel free to post an answer if you are interested.
Regards,
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