Predictive simulations identify potential neuromuscular contributors to idiopathic toe walking

Veerkamp, Kirsten; van der Krogt, Marjolein M.; Waterval, Niels F.J.; Geijtenbeek, Thomas; Walsh, H.P. John; Harlaar, Jaap; Buizer, Annemieke I.; Lloyd, David G.; Carty, Christopher P.

doi:10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2023.106152

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Toe walking in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationship with sensory and motor functions,language, cognition, and autism severity

Camia,

Sacco,

Boncoddo

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Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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Toe walking in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationship with sensory and motor functions,language, cognition, and autism severity

Camia,

Sacco,

Boncoddo

et al. 2024

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

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A physiologically inspired hybrid CPG/Reflex controller for cycling simulations that generalizes to walking

Severini,

Muñoz

2024

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Predictive simulations based on explicit, physiologically inspired, control policies, can be used to test theories on motor control and to evaluate the effect of interventions on the different components of control. Several control architectures have been proposed for simulating locomotor tasks, based on fully feedback, reflex-based, controllers, or on feedforward architectures mimicking the Central Pattern Generators. Recently, hybrid architectures integrating both feedback and feedforward components have been shown to represent a viable alternative to fully feedback or feedforward controllers. Current literature on controller-based simulations, however, almost exclusively presents task-specific controllers that do not generalize across different tasks. The task-specificity of current controllers limits the generalizability of the neurophysiological principles behind such controllers. Here we propose a hybrid controller for predictive simulations of cycling based where the feedforward component is based on a well-known theoretical model, the Unit Burst Generation model, and the feedback component includes a limited set of reflex pathways, expected to be active during submaximal steady cycling. We show that this controller can simulate physiological cycling patterns at different desired speeds. We also show that the controller can generalize to walking behaviors by just adding an additional control component for accounting balance needs. The controller here proposed, although simple in design, represent an instance of physiologically inspired generalizable controller for cyclical lower limb tasks.

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Predictive simulations identify potential neuromuscular contributors to idiopathic toe walking

Cited by 2 publications

References 41 publications

Toe walking in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationship with sensory and motor functions,language, cognition, and autism severity

Toe walking in children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Relationship with sensory and motor functions,language, cognition, and autism severity

A physiologically inspired hybrid CPG/Reflex controller for cycling simulations that generalizes to walking

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