Adiabatic invariants drive rhythmic human motion in variable gravity
Medical Physics
2020-12-03 v1 Biological Physics
Abstract
Natural human movements are stereotyped. They minimise cost functions that include energy, a natural candidate from mechanical and physiological points of view. In time-changing environments, however, motor strategies are modified since energy is no longer conserved. Adiabatic invariants are relevant observables in such cases, although they have not been investigated in human motor control so far. We fill this gap and show that the theory of adiabatic invariants explains how humans move when gravity varies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.08686,
title = {Adiabatic invariants drive rhythmic human motion in variable gravity},
author = {N. Boulanger and F. Buisseret and V. Dehouck and F. Dierick and O. White},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.08686},
year = {2020}
}