Presentation 2006-03-17
Analysis of variability of human reaching movements in consideration of similarity of arm trajectories
Takashi OYAMA, Yoji UNO,
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Abstract(in English) Human movements have some variability. Hand trajectories are a little different even after sufficient training. Under the assumption that the main factor of movement variability is noise, a planned trajectory is the same in each trial. Signal dependent noise adding to motion command has been suggested as the cause of such variability. The perception of a target location must be exact to perform such a trajectory reaching just the target. However, there are large deviation and variability between the visual and somatosensory perception of a location. It is thought that the variability of location perception has a significant factor for motion planning. Taking notice of the similarity of trajectories, we analyze how the similarity is preserved during the movements in measured trajectories, trajectories with noise in motion execution and minimum command torque change trajectories. It was found that the minimum command torque change trajectories can reproduce the similarity of measured trajectories better than the trajectories with noise. We conjecture that the variability of movements results from the variability of target perception in motion planning rather than noise in motion execution.
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Keyword(in English) variaibility / motion control / reaching movement / motion planning / location perception
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Conference Date 2006/3/10(1days)
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Title (in English) Analysis of variability of human reaching movements in consideration of similarity of arm trajectories
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Keyword(1) variaibility
Keyword(2) motion control
Keyword(3) reaching movement
Keyword(4) motion planning
Keyword(5) location perception
1st Author's Name Takashi OYAMA
1st Author's Affiliation Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology()
2nd Author's Name Yoji UNO
2nd Author's Affiliation Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Toyohashi University of Technology
Date 2006-03-17
Paper # NC2005-156
Volume (vol) vol.105
Number (no) 659
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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