According to the model of muscle synergies, the central nervous system (CNS) is organised in a modular structure, such that any muscle activation can be produced as a linear superposition of predefined time-varying profiles (i.e. synergies). This organisation might contribute to simplify the control of the musculoskeletal apparatus. Taking inspiration from these findings, we propose a method to identify the synergies that can be used to control a given dynamical system for the task of tracking a set of trajectories. Further, we show how the same approach can be applied to assess the impact of the number of synergies on the performance of the control method. From the theoretical point of view, we provide a novel interpretation of synergies inspired by the Karhunen- Loève decomposition; furthermore, our method suggests that the quality of a set of synergies should be measured in task space rather then in input space.

Alessandro, C., Nori, F. (2012). Identification of synergies by optimization of trajectory tracking tasks. In 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012) (pp.924-930). IEEE [10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290701].

Identification of synergies by optimization of trajectory tracking tasks

Alessandro C
Primo
;
2012

Abstract

According to the model of muscle synergies, the central nervous system (CNS) is organised in a modular structure, such that any muscle activation can be produced as a linear superposition of predefined time-varying profiles (i.e. synergies). This organisation might contribute to simplify the control of the musculoskeletal apparatus. Taking inspiration from these findings, we propose a method to identify the synergies that can be used to control a given dynamical system for the task of tracking a set of trajectories. Further, we show how the same approach can be applied to assess the impact of the number of synergies on the performance of the control method. From the theoretical point of view, we provide a novel interpretation of synergies inspired by the Karhunen- Loève decomposition; furthermore, our method suggests that the quality of a set of synergies should be measured in task space rather then in input space.
paper
muscle synergies; optimization; motor control
English
4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) - 24 June 2012 through 27 June 2012
2012
4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012)
978-1-4577-1200-5
2012
924
930
reserved
Alessandro, C., Nori, F. (2012). Identification of synergies by optimization of trajectory tracking tasks. In 4th IEEE RAS & EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2012) (pp.924-930). IEEE [10.1109/BioRob.2012.6290701].
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
12_BioRob_2012.pdf

Solo gestori archivio

Descrizione: Proceedings
Tipologia di allegato: Publisher’s Version (Version of Record, VoR)
Dimensione 996.29 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
996.29 kB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri   Richiedi una copia

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/10281/392258
Citazioni
  • Scopus 11
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? 8
Social impact