dc.contributor.author |
Noble, FK |
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dc.contributor.author |
Potgieter, J |
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dc.contributor.author |
Xu, Weiliang |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Tunstel, E |
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dc.coverage.spatial |
Anchorage, Alaska |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2011-12-02T01:16:31Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2011 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Anchorage, Alaska, 09 Oct 2011 - 12 Oct 2011. Editors: Tunstel E. Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. IEEE. 2898-2903. 2011 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1062-922X |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9753 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Wearable assistive devices (WAD) assist rehabilitation and recuperation. However, WADs' development is impeded by traditional actuators and current control paradigms' lack of compliance and adaptability, in contrast to the mammalian central nervous system. A limb's joint's compliance is a function of muscles' level of activation and passive viscoelastic properties. Increased equal and unequal co-activation of a limb joint's muscles leads to an increasingly stable joint. Unequal limb joint muscle activation leads to an angular displacement. Muscles' activation is controlled by alpha motor neurons, which are innervated by the spinal-cord's autonomous neural networks, i.e. central pattern generators. Given a continuous excitatory supraspinal input, a two-level, mutually inhibiting, CPG network can control an antagonistically actuated limb joint's muscles' level of activation, thus the joint's compliance, and joint oscillation frequency. |
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dc.publisher |
IEEE |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Proceedings of 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Modelling and simulations of a central pattern generator controlled, antagonistically actuated limb joint |
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dc.type |
Conference Item |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084105 |
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pubs.begin-page |
2898 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: IEEE |
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pubs.end-page |
2903 |
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pubs.finish-date |
2011-10-12 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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pubs.start-date |
2011-10-09 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Proceedings |
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pubs.elements-id |
214119 |
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pubs.org-id |
Engineering |
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pubs.org-id |
Mechanical Engineering |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2011-07-11 |
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