Humans often stabilize objects by co-contraction, also known as the activation of opposing muscles. With more muscle activation there is also more limb stiffness. More muscle activation requires more energy. Several ...

Prediction of clothing comfort is a challenging problem in virtual fitting. Most of the solutions tried so far are based on external devices or sensors. We propose a novel method to predict clothing comfort based on ...

Robots, and therefore robotic arms, are becoming more popular in everyday life. In order to be useful and safe these robots need to be exible and able to adjust to their environment. Franklin et al. (2008) proposed ...

For robots to work together with humans, they need to be able to adapt to humans. In this thesis I look at the task of carrying an object together, which can be challenging because the forces applied to the object need to ...

In this work we use the predictive coding framework to examine bimanual interference in human hand movements. Based on previous experiments, we hypothesize that bimanual interference can be understood from a similar framework ...

In this study, research was done on the model for motor learning as described by Franklin et al. (2008) to see whether the model was able to predict stability on curved objects. The results from the model were promising. ...