A Muscle-reflex model that encodes principles of legged mechanics produces human walking dynamics and muscle activities

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 263-273

  Geyer, Hartmut ^a   Herr, Hugh ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Feedback control; Legged locomotion

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GAIT; HUMAN LOCOMOTIONS; HUMAN MOTOR; HUMAN WALKING; LEGGED LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES; NEURAL CIRCUITS; WALKING GAIT;

DYNAMICS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

MUSCLE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GAIT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; JOINT; LEG; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GAIT; HUMANS; JOINTS; LEG; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFLEX; WALKING;

EID: 77953234105     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2010.2047592     Document Type: Article

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