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Model Complexity Reduction of the Hand Musculoskeletal System in Tremulous Motion

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Musculoskeletal modeling is an important step in understanding the behavior of a body part for postural and motion control. A simple but reliable model is preferred over more complex models. Most of the musculoskeletal models that have been developed so far involved a number of parameters that sometimes, some of the parameters are not easily identified or require difficult or expensive procedures. In this paper, a simplification strategy of the musculoskeletal model in 1 degree of freedom (DOF) hand tremulous motion is presented. The key idea of the complexity reduction mainly on the combination of the two inputs into single input using a sequence of signal processing. 3 models (first order, second order and second order with one zero) plus time delay are considered to represent the simplified musculoskeletal model. The best fit was represented by a second order plus time delay and one zero.

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Ruwadi, Yap, S.C., Poignet, P., Tech, A.W. (2010). Model Complexity Reduction of the Hand Musculoskeletal System in Tremulous Motion. In: Liu, H., Ding, H., Xiong, Z., Zhu, X. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16587-0_40

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