Bounded stability of the quiet standing posture: An intermittent control model

Human Movement Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 473-495

  Bottaro, Alessandra ^a   Yasutake, Youko ^b   Nomura, Taishin ^b   Casadio, Maura ^a,c   Morasso, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bounded stability; Intermittent control; Postural control; Sway movements

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; SIMULATION; STANDING;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURE; TORQUE;

EID: 44149098859     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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