Presentation 2016-03-22
Control strategy of hand movement depending on a task redundancy
Shunta Togo, Toshinori Yoshioka, Hiroshi Imamizu,
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Abstract(in English) The human solves redundancy problems involved in a motor task, and performs the task. In this study, we focused on how the human deals with the redundancy problem of target in reaching movements. We considered the reaching movements in horizontal plane, and we specified the following two task conditions: the target with redundancy, in which one-dimensional visual information of reaching target and hand position of subject was provided, and the target without redundancy, in which two-dimensional information was provided. In these conditions, observation of same motor outputs suggests that the human explicitly solves the target redundancy problem, and vice versa. We controlled movement kinematics, and measured hand impedance at movement end. Results of measurement experiments showed that the hand viscoelasticities in the task using the target with redundancy were significantly smaller than those using the target without redundancy even under the condition in which the movement kinematics was controlled. These results indicate that the human adjusts hand impedance depending on target redundancy, and suggest that the human plans and executes movements by utilizing information of target redundancy rather than explicitly solving the target redundancy problem.
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Keyword(in English) Redundancy / Motor planning / Reaching movements Kinematics / Dynamics
Paper # NC2015-94
Date of Issue 2016-03-15 (NC)

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Committee MBE / NC
Conference Date 2016/3/22(2days)
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Place (in English) Tamagawa University
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Chair Tetsuo Kobayashi(Kyoto Univ.) / Toshimichi Saito(Hosei Univ.)
Vice Chair Yutaka Fukuoka(Kogakuin Univ.) / Shigeo Sato(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Yutaka Fukuoka(akita noken) / Shigeo Sato(Kogakuin Univ.)
Assistant Takenori Oida(Kyoto Univ.) / Ryota Horie(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Hiroyuki Kanbara(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) / Hisanao Akima(Tohoku Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics / Technical Committee on Neurocomputing
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Control strategy of hand movement depending on a task redundancy
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Keyword(1) Redundancy
Keyword(2) Motor planning
Keyword(3) Reaching movements Kinematics
Keyword(4) Dynamics
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1st Author's Name Shunta Togo
1st Author's Affiliation Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(ATR/JSPS)
2nd Author's Name Toshinori Yoshioka
2nd Author's Affiliation Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International(ATR)
3rd Author's Name Hiroshi Imamizu
3rd Author's Affiliation Tokyo University/Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International(Tokyo Univ./ATR)
Date 2016-03-22
Paper # NC2015-94
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) NC-514
Page pp.pp.143-148(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-03-15 (NC)