Presentation 2018-10-19
Human Three-Joint Arm's Moving-Object Capturing Characteristics and Its Mathematical Model
Yasunobu Kimura, Toshikazu Matsui,
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Abstract(in English) This research formulates a mathematical model that simulates human arm’s reaching movements for capturing a uniformly and linearly moving object, and examines the model’s effectiveness. Actually, the research measures and analyzes moving-object capturing movements, and then models the human arm’s moving-object capturing mechanism as a feedforward control model based on a moving-object capturing strategy: the strategy is to optimally predict the capturing point where the human arm’s reaching movement duration becomes equal to the object’s uniform and linear movement duration. Consequently, the following results are obtained: (1) the measured capturing movements imply the existence of the human learning mechanism of object’s motion characteristics and the human arm’s feedforward control mechanism; (2) the proposed model can capture the uniformly and linearly moving object through optimizing the reaching movement duration to the moving object; (3) the proposed model can reproduce the measured capturing trajectories accurately. These results suggest that the proposed model can be an effective and plausible model of the human arm’s moving-object capturing mechanism.
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Keyword(in English) Moving object / Human arm’s capture / Uniform and linear movement / Feedforward control model / Capturing position / Movement duration optimization
Paper # NC2018-19
Date of Issue 2018-10-12 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2018/10/19(2days)
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Place (in English) Tohoku Univ.
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Chair Yutaka Hirata(Chubu Univ.) / Masaki Kyoso(TCU)
Vice Chair Hayaru Shouno(UEC) / Taishin Nomura(Osaka Univ.)
Secretary Hayaru Shouno(Nagoya Univ.) / Taishin Nomura(NAIST)
Assistant Keiichiro Inagaki(Chubu Univ.) / Takashi Shinozaki(NICT) / Takumi Kobayashi(YNU) / Yasuyuki Suzuki(Osaka Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Human Three-Joint Arm's Moving-Object Capturing Characteristics and Its Mathematical Model
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Moving object
Keyword(2) Human arm’s capture
Keyword(3) Uniform and linear movement
Keyword(4) Feedforward control model
Keyword(5) Capturing position
Keyword(6) Movement duration optimization
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 2018-10-19
Paper # NC2018-19
Volume (vol) vol.118
Number (no) NC-258
Page pp.pp.33-38(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2018-10-12 (NC)