AVLSI biologically-based motor control circuits

Author

Zobel, Tina H. ; Harris, Brannon C. ; DeWeerth, Stephen P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

9-12 Aug 1998

Firstpage

564

Lastpage

567

Abstract

We have developed motor control circuits based upon biological mechanisms of muscular control that demonstrate similar behaviour as motoneurons and muscle fibers. The circuits implement some key biologically-based motor control components including: (i) force-length and force-velocity characteristics associated with muscle actuation and (ii) stimulation rate characteristics associated with motoneurons. A small array of motoneuron and muscle fiber circuits that demonstrate an ordered recruitment scheme was implemented and tested for verification using analog VLSI circuits

Keywords

VLSI; analogue processing circuits; muscle; neural chips; AVLSI; analog VLSI circuits; biological mechanisms; biologically-based motor control circuits; force-length characteristics; force-velocity characteristics; muscle actuation; muscle fiber circuits; muscular control; ordered recruitment scheme; stimulation rate characteristics; Biological control systems; Biological systems; Circuits; Control systems; Force control; Motor drives; Muscles; Optical fiber testing; Production; Recruitment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Midwest Symposium on

Conference_Location

Notre Dame, IN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8914-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.1998.759555

Filename

759555