Optimal Control of a Hybrid Rhythmic-Discrete Task: The Bouncing Ball Revisited
Optimal Control of a Hybrid Rhythmic-Discrete Task: The Bouncing Ball Revisited
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混合节奏离散任务的最优控制:重温弹跳球
DOI:
10.1152/jn.00600.2009
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发表时间:
2010-05-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
Sternad, Dagmar
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作者:
Ronsse, Renaud;Wei, Kunlin;Sternad, Dagmar
Ronsse R, Wei K, Sternad D. Optimal control of a hybrid rhythmic-discrete task: the bouncing ball revisited. J Neurophysiol 103: 2482-2493, 2010. First published February 3, 2010; doi: 10.1152/jn.00600.2009. Rhythmically bouncing a ball with a racket is a hybrid task that combines continuous rhythmic actuation of the racket with the control of discrete impact events between racket and ball. This study presents experimental data and a two-layered modeling framework that explicitly addresses the hybrid nature of control: a first discrete layer calculates the state to reach at impact and the second continuous layer smoothly drives the racket to this desired state, based on optimality principles. The testbed for this hybrid model is task performance at a range of increasingly slower tempos. When slowing the rhythm of the bouncing actions, the continuous cycles become separated into a sequence of discrete movements interspersed by dwell times and directed to achieve the desired impact. Analyses of human performance show increasing variability of performance measures with slower tempi, associated with a change in racket trajectories from approximately sinusoidal to less symmetrical velocity profiles. Matching results of model simulations give support to a hybrid control model based on optimality, and therefore suggest that optimality principles are applicable to the sensorimotor control of complex movements such as ball bouncing.