Effects of neuromuscular lags on controlling contact transitions

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

Volumn 367, Issue 1891, 2009, Pages 1163-1179

  Venkadesan, Madhusudhan ^a,d   Valero Cuevas, Francisco J ^b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact transition; Finger; Hand; Speed accuracy; Time lag

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

ABRUPT TRANSITIONS; CONTACT TRANSITION; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; FINGER; FORCE MAGNITUDES; FORCE VECTORS; HAND; HUMAN DATUM; JOINT TORQUES; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NEURAL CONTROLS; NUMERICAL EXPLORATIONS; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATIONS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PICKING UP; SPECIFIC LOCATIONS; STATIC FORCES; TIME LAG; TIME- DELAYS;

SPEED;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY POSTURE; FINGER; HUMAN; JOINT; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; TENDON; TORQUE; TOUCH;

FINGERS; HUMANS; JOINTS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; TENDONS; TORQUE; TOUCH;

EID: 60749131086     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0261     Document Type: Article

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