Selecting among Neuromechnical Control Architectures using Kinematic Phase and perturbation experiments (poster)

Shai Revzen, D E Koditschek, R J Full

Yearly meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, 2007

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Abstract

We use an experimental paradigm grounded in dynamical systems (DS) theory to select which among several competing neuro-mechanical control architectures (NCA) could be in use in a given rhythmic motor behavior by using kinematic data alone. Our method allows us to extrapolate animal motions based on a few consecutive video frames, and compare the predicted motion to perturbation experiment outcomes. We apply the method to the study of control of running in the cockroach Blaberus discoidalis, and discuss its broader utility in a variety of biomechanical problems, e.g. in potential clinical application of motor learning tasks

BibTeX

@conference{revzen-2007-ASB,
  author = {Revzen, Shai and Koditschek, D E and Full, R J},
  title = {Selecting among Neuromechnical Control Architectures using Kinematic
    Phase and perturbation experiments (poster)},
  booktitle = {Yearly meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics},
  year = {2007}
}