Modularity in motor control: from muscle synergies to cognitive action representation

A d'Avella, M Giese, YP Ivanenko, T Schack… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Mastering a rich repertoire of motor behaviors, as humans and other animals do, is a
surprising and still a poorly understood outcome of evolution, development, and learning …

Learning movement primitive libraries through probabilistic segmentation

R Lioutikov, G Neumann, G Maeda… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Movement primitives are a well-established approach for encoding and executing
movements. While the primitives themselves have been extensively researched, the concept …

Cortical circuits and modules in movement generation: experiments and theories

T Flash, E Bizzi - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Studies of modularity and compositionality provide insights into cortical
organization.•Neural population activities are analyzed from representational and dynamic …

Probabilistic segmentation applied to an assembly task

R Lioutikov, G Neumann, G Maeda… - 2015 IEEE-RAS 15th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Movement primitives are a well established approach for encoding and executing robot
movements. While the primitives themselves have been extensively researched, the concept …

Geometrical invariance and smoothness maximization for task-space movement generation

Y Meirovitch, D Bennequin… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In human motor control studies, end-effector (eg, hand) trajectories have been successfully
modeled using optimization principles. Yet, it remains unclear how such trajectories are …

Open-source benchmarking for learned reaching motion generation in robotics

A Lemme, Y Meirovitch, M Khansari-Zadeh… - Paladyn, Journal of …, 2015 - degruyter.com
This paper introduces a benchmark framework to evaluate the performance of reaching
motion generation approaches that learn from demonstrated examples. The system …

Expertise, teleoperation, and task constraints affect the speed–curvature–torsion power law in RAMIS

Y Sharon, I Nisky - Journal of Medical Robotics Research, 2018 - World Scientific
Quantitative characterization of surgical movements can improve the quality of patient care
by informing the development of new training protocols for surgeons, and the design and …

Self-supervised bootstrapping of a movement primitive library from complex trajectories

A Lemme, RF Reinhart, JJ Steil - 2014 IEEE-RAS International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent approaches have been advocated to learn a movement primitive library from
demonstrations by using predefined motion features to identify and extract new movement …

Discovery and recognition of motion primitives in human activities

M Sanzari, V Ntouskos, F Pirri - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
We present a novel framework for the automatic discovery and recognition of motion
primitives in videos of human activities. Given the 3D pose of a human in a video, human …

What can spatiotemporal characteristics of movements in RAMIS tell Us?

Y Sharon, I Nisky - arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05818, 2017 - arxiv.org
Quantitative characterization of surgical movements can improve the quality of patient care
by informing the development of new training protocols for surgeons, and the design and …