TY - JOUR
T1 - Grip forces during object manipulation
T2 - Experiment, mathematical model, and validation
AU - Slota, Gregory P.
AU - Latash, Mark L.
AU - Zatsiorsky, Vladimir M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This project was assisted by the design efforts of ATI Industrial Automations (Apex, NC, USA), which allowed for the reduced equipment bulk and wireless capabilities of the force data system. This work was supported in part by National Institute of Health grants AG-018751, NS-035032, AR-04856.
Funding Information:
This work was in part supported by the National Institutes of Health grants AG-018751, NS-035032, and AR-048563.
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - When people transport handheld objects, they change the grip force with the object movement. Circular movement patterns were tested within three planes at two different rates (1.0, 1.5 Hz) and two diameters (20, 40 cm). Subjects performed the task reasonably well, matching frequencies and dynamic ranges of accelerations within expectations. A mathematical model was designed to predict the applied normal forces from kinematic data. The model is based on two hypotheses: (a) the grip force changes during movements along complex trajectories can be represented as the sum of effects of two basic commands associated with the parallel and orthogonal manipulation, respectively; (b) different central commands are sent to the thumb and virtual finger (Vf - four fingers combined). The model predicted the actual normal forces with a total variance accounted for of better than 98%. The effects of the two components of acceleration - along the normal axis and the resultant acceleration within the shear plane - on the digit normal forces are additive.
AB - When people transport handheld objects, they change the grip force with the object movement. Circular movement patterns were tested within three planes at two different rates (1.0, 1.5 Hz) and two diameters (20, 40 cm). Subjects performed the task reasonably well, matching frequencies and dynamic ranges of accelerations within expectations. A mathematical model was designed to predict the applied normal forces from kinematic data. The model is based on two hypotheses: (a) the grip force changes during movements along complex trajectories can be represented as the sum of effects of two basic commands associated with the parallel and orthogonal manipulation, respectively; (b) different central commands are sent to the thumb and virtual finger (Vf - four fingers combined). The model predicted the actual normal forces with a total variance accounted for of better than 98%. The effects of the two components of acceleration - along the normal axis and the resultant acceleration within the shear plane - on the digit normal forces are additive.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00221-011-2784-y
DO - 10.1007/s00221-011-2784-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 21735245
AN - SCOPUS:79960934515
SN - 0014-4819
VL - 213
SP - 125
EP - 139
JO - Experimental Brain Research
JF - Experimental Brain Research
IS - 1
ER -