Balancing with positive feedback: The case for discontinuous control

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1891, 2009, Pages 1181-1193

  Milton, John ^a   Townsend, Jennifer L ^a   King, Meredith A ^a   Ohira, Toru ^b  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discontinuous control; Noise; Positive feedback; Postural sway; Time delay

Indexed keywords

DELAY CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TIME DELAY;

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISCONTINUOUS CONTROL; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS; FIRST-ORDER DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FIRST-PASSAGE TIME; HUMAN BALANCES; INTRINSIC PROPERTIES; NOISE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTURAL SWAY; TWO-POINT CORRELATIONS; UPRIGHT POSITIONS; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

FEEDBACK;

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GRAVITY; HUMAN; KINETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

BODY WEIGHT; FEEDBACK; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 60749114788     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0257     Document Type: Article

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