Presentation 2020-03-04
Mathematical Model for Generating Pseudo Violin-Bowing Movements Including Their Movement Duration
Yasunobu Kimura, Toshikazu Matsui,
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Abstract(in English) This research formulates a mathematical model for generating violin bowing-like movements with various movement durations, and discusses the model’s effectiveness and the strategy underlying the human arm’s control mechanism. Actually, two factors are incorporated into the criterion function of the previous three-joint arm model with a freezing-like mechanism in its hand joint: a constrained condition for evaluating linearity of the hand path and an additional term for evaluating movement duration. Consequently, the following results are obtained: (1) the measured hand-joint angle changes quite a bit during movements contrary to unconstrained reaching movements; (2) the proposed model can generate hand paths close to the straight line connecting the start and target points with various movement durations (or speeds); (3) the minimum torque-change strategy does not always enable reproductions of all measured trajectories, whereas the minimum energy strategy enables reproductions of all measured trajectories. The above results suggest that the proposed model can be a plausible model of the human violin bowing mechanism, and that the human arm’s control mechanism can be subject to energy minimizing strategy.
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Keyword(in English) Violin / Pseudo bowing movement / Straight hand path / Movement duration optimization / Energy minimization / Torque change minimization
Paper # NC2019-83
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2020/3/4(3days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) University of Electro Communications
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Neuro Computing, Medical Engineering, etc.
Chair Hayaru Shouno(UEC) / Taishin Nomura(Osaka Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuyuki Samejima(Tamagawa Univ) / Takashi Watanabe(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Kazuyuki Samejima(NAIST) / Takashi Watanabe(NTT)
Assistant Takashi Shinozaki(NICT) / Ken Takiyama(TUAT) / Yasuyuki Suzuki(Osaka Univ.) / Akihiro Karashima(Tohoku Inst. of Tech.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Mathematical Model for Generating Pseudo Violin-Bowing Movements Including Their Movement Duration
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Violin
Keyword(2) Pseudo bowing movement
Keyword(3) Straight hand path
Keyword(4) Movement duration optimization
Keyword(5) Energy minimization
Keyword(6) Torque change minimization
1st Author's Name Yasunobu Kimura
1st Author's Affiliation Gunma University(Gunma Univ)
2nd Author's Name Toshikazu Matsui
2nd Author's Affiliation Gunma University(Gunma Univ)
Date 2020-03-04
Paper # NC2019-83
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) NC-453
Page pp.pp.45-50(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (NC)