Arm end-point trajectories under normal and micro-gravity environments

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 43, Issue 3-6, 1998, Pages 153-161

  Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^a   McIntyre, Joe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Arm movements; Gravitational force; Human; Kinematics; Planning

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARM; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; LONG DURATION; MALE; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOYUZ TM20 PROJECT; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MANNED; MIR PROJECT; SOYUZ TM20 PROJECT;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARM; BRAIN; GRAVITATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE FLIGHT; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0032130270     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-5765(98)00151-9     Document Type: Article

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