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Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance

Stabilization of the CIP (Cart Inverted Pendulum) is an analogy to stick balancing on a finger and is an example of unstable tasks that humans face in everyday life. The difficulty of the task grows exponentially with the decrease of the length of the stick and a stick length of 32 cm is considered...

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Autores principales: Morasso, Pietro, Nomura, Taishin, Suzuki, Yasuyuki, Zenzeri, Jacopo
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024281
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2019.00016
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author Morasso, Pietro
Nomura, Taishin
Suzuki, Yasuyuki
Zenzeri, Jacopo
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Suzuki, Yasuyuki
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description Stabilization of the CIP (Cart Inverted Pendulum) is an analogy to stick balancing on a finger and is an example of unstable tasks that humans face in everyday life. The difficulty of the task grows exponentially with the decrease of the length of the stick and a stick length of 32 cm is considered as a human limit even for well-trained subjects. Moreover, there is a cybernetic limit related to the delay of the multimodal sensory feedback (about 230 ms) that supports a feedback stabilization strategy. We previously demonstrated that an intermittent-feedback control paradigm, originally developed for modeling the stabilization of upright standing, can be applied with success also to the CIP system, but with values of the critical parameters far from the limiting ones (stick length 50 cm and feedback delay 100 ms). The intermittent control paradigm is based on the alternation of on-phases, driven by a proportional/derivative delayed feedback controller, and off-phases, where the feedback is switched off and the motion evolves according to the intrinsic dynamics of the CIP. In its standard formulation, the switching mechanism consists of a simple threshold operator: the feedback control is switched off if the current (delayed) state vector is closer to the stable than to the unstable manifold of the off-phase and is switched on in the opposite case. Although this simple formulation is effective for explaining upright standing as well as CIP balancing, it fails in the most challenging configuration of the CIP. In this work we propose a modification of the standard intermittent control policy that focuses on the explicit selection of switching times and is based on the phase reset of the estimated state vector at each switching time and on the simulation of an approximated internal model of CIP dynamics. We demonstrate, by simulating the modified intermittent control policy, that it can match the limits of human performance, while operating near the edge of instability.
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spelling pubmed-64610632019-04-25 Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance Morasso, Pietro Nomura, Taishin Suzuki, Yasuyuki Zenzeri, Jacopo Front Comput Neurosci Neuroscience Stabilization of the CIP (Cart Inverted Pendulum) is an analogy to stick balancing on a finger and is an example of unstable tasks that humans face in everyday life. The difficulty of the task grows exponentially with the decrease of the length of the stick and a stick length of 32 cm is considered as a human limit even for well-trained subjects. Moreover, there is a cybernetic limit related to the delay of the multimodal sensory feedback (about 230 ms) that supports a feedback stabilization strategy. We previously demonstrated that an intermittent-feedback control paradigm, originally developed for modeling the stabilization of upright standing, can be applied with success also to the CIP system, but with values of the critical parameters far from the limiting ones (stick length 50 cm and feedback delay 100 ms). The intermittent control paradigm is based on the alternation of on-phases, driven by a proportional/derivative delayed feedback controller, and off-phases, where the feedback is switched off and the motion evolves according to the intrinsic dynamics of the CIP. In its standard formulation, the switching mechanism consists of a simple threshold operator: the feedback control is switched off if the current (delayed) state vector is closer to the stable than to the unstable manifold of the off-phase and is switched on in the opposite case. Although this simple formulation is effective for explaining upright standing as well as CIP balancing, it fails in the most challenging configuration of the CIP. In this work we propose a modification of the standard intermittent control policy that focuses on the explicit selection of switching times and is based on the phase reset of the estimated state vector at each switching time and on the simulation of an approximated internal model of CIP dynamics. We demonstrate, by simulating the modified intermittent control policy, that it can match the limits of human performance, while operating near the edge of instability. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6461063/ /pubmed/31024281 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2019.00016 Text en Copyright © 2019 Morasso, Nomura, Suzuki and Zenzeri. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Neuroscience
Morasso, Pietro
Nomura, Taishin
Suzuki, Yasuyuki
Zenzeri, Jacopo
Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance
title Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance
title_full Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance
title_fullStr Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance
title_full_unstemmed Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance
title_short Stabilization of a Cart Inverted Pendulum: Improving the Intermittent Feedback Strategy to Match the Limits of Human Performance
title_sort stabilization of a cart inverted pendulum: improving the intermittent feedback strategy to match the limits of human performance
topic Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6461063/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31024281
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2019.00016
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