TY - GEN
T1 - Extraction of behavior primitives in human standing-up motion for development of power assisting machine
AU - An, Qi
AU - Ikemoto, Yusuke
AU - Asama, Hajime
AU - Matsuoka, Hiroki
AU - Chugo, Daisuke
AU - Takakusaki, Kaoru
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - Recently, many older people have difficulty standing up despite that motion's importance in daily life. Therefore, a machine to support their standing-up motion is needed; yet we still do not know how people control their motor system when they stand up. For that reason, we can not produce such a machine. In this study, we analyze the system of people's standing-up motion using information related to muscle activity. Muscle synergy-coherent activations of groups of muscles are an efficient means to achieve this goal. The results of experiments demonstrate the importance of muscle synergies that exist when people stand up.
AB - Recently, many older people have difficulty standing up despite that motion's importance in daily life. Therefore, a machine to support their standing-up motion is needed; yet we still do not know how people control their motor system when they stand up. For that reason, we can not produce such a machine. In this study, we analyze the system of people's standing-up motion using information related to muscle activity. Muscle synergy-coherent activations of groups of muscles are an efficient means to achieve this goal. The results of experiments demonstrate the importance of muscle synergies that exist when people stand up.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913307
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913307
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781424426799
T3 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
SP - 1995
EP - 2000
BT - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008
Y2 - 21 February 2009 through 26 February 2009
ER -