February 05, 2015 / by George Council / In news
Preparing the leg for ground contact in running - the contribution of feed-forward and visual feedback
A paper, among many, that explores the usage of feedforward control in perserving periodic gaits in SLIP-like models. As the lab has contributed to this discussion in a very general way, it is useful to examine other groups' special-case result to see if our result encompasses it, or it is an novel technique. Interestingly, this paper consists of experiemental measurements of acutal muscle activity in moving humans - suggesting that feedforward muscle activity is sufficient to explain previously observed feed-forward leg adjustments.
Read more