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Prosody is a phenomenon that is crucial for numerous fields of speech research, accenting the importance of having a robust prosody model. A class of intonation models based on the physiology of pitch pro- duction are especially attractive for their inhere ...

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Muscle activation variability is inversely correlated with walking speed

Auke Ijspeert, Florin Dzeladini, Cole Stewart Simpson, Amandine Grappe

Individuals with motor impairments typically walk at much slower speeds than their unimpaired counter- parts, yet their gait data is still evaluated against the relatively faster gait of healthy subjects. Therefore a good understanding of unimpaired gait a ...

Springer2016

Evaluation of the effects of the Arm Light Exoskeleton on movement execution and muscle activities: a pilot study on healthy subjects

Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Massimo Bergamasco

Background: Exoskeletons for lower and upper extremities have been introduced in neurorehabilitation because they can guide the patient's limb following its anatomy, covering many degrees of freedom and most of its natural workspace, and allowing the contr ...

Biomed Central Ltd2016

Motor and cognitive brain circuits of brain-machine interactions

Silvia Marchesotti

Brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) allow the user to control an external device such as a robotic arm, a cursor, or an avatar in a virtual world through the real-time decoding of brain signals and without the involvement of the musculoskeletal system. Althoug ...

EPFL2016

Body vibration and its transmission in alpine ski racing

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

The aim of the study was to quantify the vibrations occurring at the lower limbs and the trunk during alpine ski racing. Four European Cup level athletes skied each three runs on a typical giant slalom course. For each turn, power spectral density (PSD) of ...

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Wearable multimodal tactile interfaces for augmenting haptic perception

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Haptic feedback has been used to faithfully restitute the haptic sense lacking during telemanipulation, but also for providing auxiliary information via the haptic channel to restore functional perception of missing or damaged senses, e.g. sensory substitu ...

EPFL2016

Adaptive "load-distributed" muscle coordination method for kinematically redundant musculoskeletal humanoid systems

Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez

Muscle force control of musculoskeletal humanoid systems has been studied for years in the motor control, biomechanics and robotics disciplines. However, the study of "load-distributed" muscle control has seldomly been contemplated. In this paper, we consi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

An Investigation of Muscle Models for Physiologically Based Intonation Modelling

Philip Neil Garner

Prosody is a crucial aspect of the speech signal and its modelling is of great importance for various speech technologies. Intonation models based on physiology rely on an accurate model of muscle activation. Although most of them are based on the spring-d ...

2015

Full body action remapping of peripersonal space: The case of walking

Olaf Blanke, Hervé Lissek, Andrea Serino, Patrick Marmaroli, Jean-Paul Noel, Petr Grivaz

The space immediately surrounding the body, i.e. peripersonal space (PPS), is represented by populations of multisensory neurons, from a network of premotor and parietal areas, which integrate tactile stimuli from the body’s surface with visual or auditory ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Load Balance Control for a Humanoid Musculoskeletal Arm in Table Tennis Movement

Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez

The aim of this paper is to propose a muscle control method for a humanoid musculoskeletal arm that mimics human muscle coordination from an engineering viewpoint. As muscle control is posed as a redundancy problem, the resulting muscle force corresponds t ...

Inst Control Robotics & Systems, Korean Inst Electrical Engineers2015

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