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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2018

Saturation limits the contribution of acceleration feedback to balancing against reaction delay.

Li Zhang, Gabor Stepan, Tamas Insperger

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  4. Acting together, destabilizing influences can stabilize human balance.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2019
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3 authors.

Li ZhangState Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People's Republic of China zhangli@nuaa.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-6077-9093
Gabor StepanDepartment of Applied Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1521 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-0309-2409
Tamas InspergerDepartment of Applied Mechanics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1521 Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-7518-9774

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A nonlinear model for human balancing subjected to a saturated delayed proportional-derivative-acceleration (PDA) feedback is analysed. Compared to the proportional-derivative (PD) controller, it is confirmed that the PDA controller improves local stability even for large feedback delays. However, it is shown that the saturated PDA controller typically introduces subcritical Hopf bifurcation into the system, which can also lead to falling for large enough perturbations. The subcriticality becomes stronger as the acceleration feedback gain increases or the saturation torque limit decreases. These explain some features of human balancing failure related to the increased reaction delay of inactive elderly people.

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Computer SimulationFeedbackModels, BiologicalHumansPostural Balanceacceleration feedbackHopf bifurcationhuman balancingreaction delaysaturation

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PMID29386400
PMCPMC5805977

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