title: The Use of a Nonlinear Muscle Model in Explaining the Relationship Between Duration, Amplitude, and Peak Velocity of Human Rapid Movements.
abstract: Rapid human movements exhibit a quasilinear relationship between their amplitude and maximum velocity and a log-like relationship between their amplitude and duration. The authors demonstrate that those well-observed relations can be obtained with a simple nonlinear muscle model and a pulse-step control scheme. That result encourages the use of nonlinear musculoskeletal models with simple control schemes for modeling human ballistic movements.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. karniel@tx.technion.ac.il
authors.forename: A.
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karniel
authors.forename: G. F.
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Inbar