Fundamentals of Neuromechanics (Biosystems & Biorobotics)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1447167465 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 194 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
That is, how does the nervous system select a specific muscle coordination pattern when the many muscles of a limb allow for multiple solutions? I revisit this problem from the emerging perspective of neuromechanics that emphasizes finding and implementing families of feasible solutions, instead of a single and unique optimal solution. This perspective developed from courses I taught to engineers and life scientists at Cornell University and the University of Southern California, and is made possible by combining fundamental concepts from mechanics, anatomy, mathematics, robotics and neuroscience with advances in the field of computational geometry. Therefore, the tone is decidedly pedagogical, engaging, integrative, and practical to make it accessible to pe
Those families of feasible solutions emerge naturally from the interactions among the feasible neural commands, anatomy of the limb, and constraints of the task. Such alternative perspective to the neural control of limb function is not only biologically plausible, but sheds light on the most central tenets and debates in the fields of neural control, robotics, rehabilitation, and brain-body co-evolutionary adaptations. I attempt to tread the line between making the mathematical exposition accessible to life sc