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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Deep kinematic inference affords efficient and scalable control of bodily movements.

Matteo Priorelli, Giovanni Pezzulo, Ivilin Peev Stoianov

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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  5. Deep Hybrid Models: Infer and Plan in a Dynamic World.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  8. Deep kinematic inference affords efficient and scalable control of bodily movements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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3 authors.

Matteo PriorelliNational Research Council, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Padova 35137, Italy.
Giovanni PezzuloNational Research Council, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome 00185, Italy.
Ivilin Peev StoianovNational Research Council, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Padova 35137, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0642-259X

Funding

EC | European Research Council (ERC) 820213EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) 945539EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020) 951910Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) 2017KZNZLNMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) IR0000011-EBRAINS-ItalyMinistero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) PE0000013-FAIR
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Abstract

Performing goal-directed movements requires mapping goals from extrinsic (workspace-relative) to intrinsic (body-relative) coordinates and then to motor signals. Mainstream approaches based on optimal control realize the mappings by minimizing cost functions, which is computationally demanding. Instead, active inference uses generative models to produce sensory predictions, which allows a cheaper inversion to the motor signals. However, devising generative models to control complex kinematic chains like the human body is challenging. We introduce an active inference architecture that affords a simple but effective mapping from extrinsic to intrinsic coordinates via inference and easily scales up to drive complex kinematic chains. Rich goals can be specified in both intrinsic and extrinsic coordinates using attractive or repulsive forces. The proposed model reproduces sophisticated bodily movements and paves the way for computationally efficient and biologically plausible control of actuated systems.

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AlgorithmsMovementBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansMotivationactive inferencekinematicsmotor controlneurocomputational modelingpredictive coding

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