Biological and engineering approaches to human postural control

Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-31

  Tahboub, Karim ^a   Mergner, Thomas ^b  

^a PALESTINE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; NEUROLOGY; ROBOTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

CONTROL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC MODELS; HUMAN POSTURAL CONTROL;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33847070864     PISSN: 10692509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ica-2007-14103     Document Type: Conference Paper

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