Improving performance of robots using human-inspired approaches: a survey

H Qiao, S Zhong, Z Chen, H Wang - Science China Information Sciences, 2022‏ - Springer
Realizing high performance of ordinary robots is one of the core problems in robotic
research. Improving the performance of ordinary robots usually relies on the collaborative …

A survey of brain-inspired intelligent robots: Integration of vision, decision, motion control, and musculoskeletal systems

H Qiao, J Chen, X Huang - IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Current robotic studies are focused on the performance of specific tasks. However, such
tasks cannot be generalized, and some special tasks, such as compliant and precise …

The neural origin of muscle synergies

E Bizzi, VCK Cheung - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Muscle synergies are neural coordinative structures that function to alleviate the
computational burden associated with the control of movement and posture. In this …

The case for and against muscle synergies

MC Tresch, A Jarc - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2009‏ - Elsevier
A long standing goal in motor control is to determine the fundamental output controlled by
the CNS: does the CNS control the activation of individual motor units, individual muscles …

Alterations in upper limb muscle synergy structure in chronic stroke survivors

J Roh, WZ Rymer, EJ Perreault… - Journal of …, 2013‏ - journals.physiology.org
Previous studies in neurologically intact subjects have shown that motor coordination can be
described by task-dependent combinations of a few muscle synergies, defined here as a …

Muscle synergies: implications for clinical evaluation and rehabilitation of movement

S Safavynia, G Torres-Oviedo… - Topics in spinal cord …, 2011‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
We present a method called muscle synergy analysis, which can offer clinicians insight into
both underlying neural strategies for movement and functional outcomes of muscle activity …

Robotic exoskeletons: a perspective for the rehabilitation of arm coordination in stroke patients

N Jarrassé, T Proietti, V Crocher… - Frontiers in human …, 2014‏ - frontiersin.org
Upper-limb impairment after stroke is caused by weakness, loss of individual joint control,
spasticity, and abnormal synergies. Upper-limb movement frequently involves abnormal …

Control of reaching movements by muscle synergy combinations

A d'Avella, F Lacquaniti - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2013‏ - frontiersin.org
Controlling the movement of the arm to achieve a goal, such as reaching for an object, is
challenging because it requires coordinating many muscles acting on many joints. The …

Representation of muscle synergies in the primate brain

SA Overduin, A d'Avella, J Roh, JM Carmena… - Journal of …, 2015‏ - jneurosci.org
Evidence suggests that the CNS uses motor primitives to simplify movement control, but
whether it actually stores primitives instead of computing solutions on the fly to satisfy task …