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1 Biomedical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of); Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2 Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3 Psychology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
4 Biomedical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology, Tehran, Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
5 Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ostry{at}motion.psych.mcgill.ca.
We used a robotic device to test the idea that impedance control involves a process of learning or adaptation that is acquired over time and permits the voluntary control of the pattern of stiffness at the hand. The tests were conducted in statics. Subjects were trained over the course of three successive days to resist the effects of one of three different kinds of mechanical loads, single axis loads acting in the lateral direction, single axis loads acting in the forward/backward direction and isotropic loads that perturbed the limb in eight directions about a circle. We found that subjects in contact with single axis loads voluntarily modified their hand stiffness orientation such that changes to the direction of maximum stiffness mirrored the direction of applied load. In the case of isotropic loads, a uniform increase in endpoint stiffness was observed. Using a physiologically realistic model of two-joint arm movement, the experimentally determined pattern of impedance change could be replicated by assuming that coactivation of elbow and double joint muscles was independent of coactivation of muscles at the shoulder. Moreover, using this pattern of coactivation control we were able to replicate an asymmetric pattern of rotation of the stiffness ellipse that was observed empirically. The present findings are consistent with the idea that arm stiffness is controlled through the use of at least two independent cocontraction commands.
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