Neuromusculoskeletal Modeling for the Adaptive Control of Posture During Locomotion
Neuromusculoskeletal Modeling for the Adaptive Control of Posture During Locomotion
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10.1007/978-1-4939-3267-2_8
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2016-01-01
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Aoi, Shinya
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Aoi, Shinya
People and animals produce adaptive locomotion in diverse environments by cooperatively and skillfully manipulating their complicated and redundant musculoskeletal systems. To establish such locomotion, the control of leg movement to transport the entire body against gravity and the control of posture to prevent falling are required. However, these controls affect one another for the posture of the body during locomotion because leg movement disturbs the posture. The underlying mechanism for stabilizing posture during locomotion remains unclear. In this chapter, simulation studies are presented to investigate the functional roles of the nervous system to maintain the posture of the body during locomotion by focusing on the adaptive walking of humans during disturbances and on obstacle avoidance during walking by the hind legs of rats. Neuromusculoskeletal models for humans and rats were constructed by integrating the musculoskeletal model using anatomical data and the nervous system model based on physiological findings. The leg movement control was modeled based on the physiological concepts of central pattern generators and muscle synergy and on sensory regulation by phase resetting and interlimb coordination. The posture control was also modeled to regulate the postural behavior using somatosensory information. We also examine how these controls contribute to stabilizing posture during locomotion.