A generalist policy for muscle-driven control across individual musculoskeletal models

Differences in musculoskeletal morphology challenge policy reuse across individual models. Here we present MyoAcross, a framework that combines individual musculoskeletal model construction, morphology-conditioned policy learning and virtual model augmentation to enable muscle-driven reference-motion tracking without individual fine-tuning. Across 31 held-out individual models, MyoAcross achieves 99.24% completion and reduces tracking error by 22.60% relative to an unconditioned multilayer perceptron. Policy reuse extends to models of 22 held-out individuals constructed from single-image shape estimates, measured height and body mass, and, with asymmetry augmentation, to models with unilateral lower-limb shortening. Comparisons with measurements from 120 additional individuals show agreement in vertical ground reaction force waveforms and channel-dependent agreement between simulated muscle activations and electromyography. These results establish a common control framework for comparative simulations of movement across individual musculoskeletal models.

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arXiv (Cornell University)
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2026-10-27
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2610.36535
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Muscle activation and electromyography studies
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A generalist policy for muscle-driven control across individual musculoskeletal models

Zhu Yinglei, Yiheng He, Huichan Zhao, Zhengqing Li et al.
arXiv (Cornell University)
Muscle activation and electromyography studies
preprint

A generalist policy for muscle-driven control across individual musculoskeletal models

Zhu Yinglei, Yiheng He, Huichan Zhao, Zhengqing Li, XinJun Liu, Zhiyuan Zhang, Weiming Kang, Bozhao Wang, Xiaoqiang Tang, Senhao Hou
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Abstract

Differences in musculoskeletal morphology challenge policy reuse across individual models. Here we present MyoAcross, a framework that combines individual musculoskeletal model construction, morphology-conditioned policy learning and virtual model augmentation to enable muscle-driven reference-motion tracking without individual fine-tuning. Across 31 held-out individual models, MyoAcross achieves 99.24% completion and reduces tracking error by 22.60% relative to an unconditioned multilayer perceptron. Policy reuse extends to models of 22 held-out individuals constructed from single-image shape estimates, measured height and body mass, and, with asymmetry augmentation, to models with unilateral lower-limb shortening. Comparisons with measurements from 120 additional individuals show agreement in vertical ground reaction force waveforms and channel-dependent agreement between simulated muscle activations and electromyography. These results establish a common control framework for comparative simulations of movement across individual musculoskeletal models.

arXiv (Cornell University)
Muscle activation and electromyography studies
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