A mathematical tool to generate complex whole body motor tasks and test hypotheses on underlying motor planning

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-22

  Tagliabue, Michele ^a   Pedrocchi, Alessandra ^a   Pozzo, Thierry ^b,c,d   Ferrigno, Giancarlo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Motor control; Optimization; Pointing; Posture; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BODY POINTING MOVEMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; POSTURE;

BIOMECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SIMULATOR;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 37549047588     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-007-0252-4     Document Type: Article

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