Robust brain-machine interface design using optimal feedback control modeling and adaptive point process filtering

MM Shanechi, AL Orsborn… - PLoS computational …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Much progress has been made in brain-machine interfaces (BMI) using decoders such as
Kalman filters and finding their parameters with closed-loop decoder adaptation (CLDA) …

Why don't we move slower? The value of time in the neural control of action

B Berret, F Jean - Journal of neuroscience, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
To want something now rather than later is a common attitude that reflects the brain's
tendency to value the passage of time. Because the time taken to accomplish an action …

Stochastic optimal feedforward-feedback control determines timing and variability of arm movements with or without vision

B Berret, A Conessa, N Schweighofer… - PLOS Computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Human movements with or without vision exhibit timing (ie speed and duration) and
variability characteristics which are not well captured by existing computational models …

Optimization of muscle activity for task-level goals predicts complex changes in limb forces across biomechanical contexts

JL McKay, LH Ting - PLoS computational biology, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Optimality principles have been proposed as a general framework for understanding motor
control in animals and humans largely based on their ability to predict general features …

Movement duration, Fitts's law, and an infinite-horizon optimal feedback control model for biological motor systems

N Qian, Y Jiang, ZP Jiang, P Mazzoni - Neural computation, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimization models explain many aspects of biological goal-directed movements. However,
most such models use a finite-horizon formulation, which requires a prefixed movement …

Human motor learning is robust to control-dependent noise

B Pang, L Cui, ZP Jiang - Biological cybernetics, 2022 - Springer
Noises are ubiquitous in sensorimotor interactions and contaminate the information
provided to the central nervous system (CNS) for motor learning. An interesting question is …

High-performance brain-machine interface enabled by an adaptive optimal feedback-controlled point process decoder

MM Shanechi, A Orsborn, H Moorman… - 2014 36th Annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Brain-machine interface (BMI) performance has been improved using Kalman filters (KF)
combined with closed-loop decoder adaptation (CLDA). CLDA fits the decoder parameters …

A single, continuously applied control policy for modeling reaching movements with and without perturbation

Z Li, P Mazzoni, S Song, N Qian - Neural Computation, 2018 - direct.mit.edu
It has been debated whether kinematic features, such as the number of peaks or
decomposed submovements in a velocity profile, indicate the number of discrete motor …

Optimal feedback-controlled point process decoder for adaptation and assisted training in brain-machine interfaces

MM Shanechi, JM Carmena - 2013 6th International IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Closed-loop decoder adaptation (CLDA) improves brain-machine interface performance by
estimating the decoder parameters in closed-loop operation. By allowing the subject to use …

The effects of reducing preparation time on the execution of intentionally curved trajectories: optimization and geometrical analysis

D Kohen, M Karklinsky, Y Meirovitch, T Flash… - Frontiers in human …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
When subjects are intentionally preparing a curved trajectory, they are engaged in a time-
consuming trajectory planning process that is separate from target selection. To investigate …