Control of reaching movements by muscle synergy combinations

A d'Avella, F Lacquaniti - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Controlling the movement of the arm to achieve a goal, such as reaching for an object, is
challenging because it requires coordinating many muscles acting on many joints. The …

Internal models in control, bioengineering, and neuroscience

M Bin, J Huang, A Isidori, L Marconi… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Internal models are nowadays customarily used in different domains of science and
engineering to describe how living organisms or artificial computational units embed their …

Human control of an inverted pendulum: is continuous control necessary? Is intermittent control effective? Is intermittent control physiological?

ID Loram, H Gollee, M Lakie… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐technical summary Homeostasis, the physiological control of variables such as body
position, is founded on negative feedback mechanisms. The default understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Intermittent control with ankle, hip, and mixed strategies during quiet standing: a theoretical proposal based on a double inverted pendulum model

Y Suzuki, T Nomura, M Casadio, P Morasso - Journal of theoretical biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Human upright posture, as a mechanical system, is characterized by an instability of saddle
type, involving both stable and unstable dynamic modes. The brain stabilizes such system …

Exponential synchronization for delayed dynamical networks via intermittent control: Dealing with actuator saturations

Y Chen, Z Wang, B Shen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past two decades, the synchronization problem for dynamical networks has drawn
significant attention due to its clear practical insight in biological systems, social networks …

[HTML][HTML] Motor invariants in action execution and perception

F Torricelli, A Tomassini, G Pezzulo, T Pozzo… - Physics of life …, 2023 - Elsevier
The nervous system is sensitive to statistical regularities of the external world and forms
internal models of these regularities to predict environmental dynamics. Given the inherently …

Sustained sensorimotor control as intermittent decisions about prediction errors: Computational framework and application to ground vehicle steering

G Markkula, E Boer, R Romano, N Merat - Biological cybernetics, 2018 - Springer
A conceptual and computational framework is proposed for modelling of human
sensorimotor control and is exemplified for the sensorimotor task of steering a car. The …

Learning to stand with unexpected sensorimotor delays

BG Rasman, PA Forbes, RM Peters, O Ortiz, I Franks… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Human standing balance relies on self-motion estimates that are used by the nervous
system to detect unexpected movements and enable corrective responses and adaptations …

A review of human sensory dynamics for application to models of driver steering and speed control

CJ Nash, DJ Cole, RS Bigler - Biological cybernetics, 2016 - Springer
In comparison with the high level of knowledge about vehicle dynamics which exists
nowadays, the role of the driver in the driver–vehicle system is still relatively poorly …

Postural instability via a loss of intermittent control in elderly and patients with Parkinson's disease: A model-based and data-driven approach

Y Suzuki, A Nakamura, M Milosevic… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Postural instability is one of the major symptoms of Parkinson's disease. Here, we
assimilated a model of intermittent delay feedback control during quiet standing into postural …