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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2024

Human performance in virtual stabilization of a fractional-order system with reaction delay.

Tamas Balogh, Balazs A Kovacs, Tamas Insperger

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Tamas BaloghHUN-REN-BME Dynamics of Machines Research Group, Műegyetem rkp. 3, Budapest H-1111, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-6149-9018
Balazs A KovacsDepartment of Applied Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Műegyetem rkp. 3, Budapest H-1111, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-2942-730X
Tamas InspergerHUN-REN-BME Dynamics of Machines Research Group, Műegyetem rkp. 3, Budapest H-1111, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0001-7518-9774

Funding

Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal NKFI-K13862
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Virtual balancing tasks facilitate the study of human motion control: human reaction to the change of artificially introduced parameters can be studied in a computer environment. In this article, the dynamics of human stick balancing are generalized using fractional-order derivatives. Reaction delay sets a strong limitation on the length of the shortest stick that human subjects can balance. Human processing of visual input also exhibits a memory effect, which can be modelled by fractional-order derivatives. Therefore, we hypothesize a delayed fractional-order PD control of the unstable fractional-order process. The resulting equation of motion is investigated in a dimensionless framework, and stabilizability limits are determined as a function of the dynamics's order. These theoretical limits are then compared with the results of a systematic series of virtual balancing tests performed by 18 subjects. The comparison shows that the theoretical stabilizability limits for controllers with fixed fractional order correspond to the measured data points. The best fit is obtained if the fractional order of the underlying control law is 0.475.

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Postural BalanceAdultFemaleHumansMaleModels, BiologicalReaction Timecritical lengthfractional-order dynamicsinverted pendulumreaction delayvirtual balancing

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PMID38919061
PMCPMC11285844

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