The Use of a Nonlinear Muscle Model in Explaining the Relationship Between Duration, Amplitude, and Peak Velocity of Human Rapid Movements.
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.
Karniel
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. karniel@tx.technion.ac.il
Inbar
G. F.
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