Effect of Kinetic Degrees of Freedom on Multi-Finger Synergies and Task Performance during Force Production and Release Tasks

Scientific Reports
Kitae KimJ Park

Abstract

Complex structures present in a human body has relatively large degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) as compared to the requirement of a particular task. This phenomenon called motor redundancy initially deemed as a computational problem rather can be understood as having the flexibility to perform the certain task successfully. Hence, the purpose of our study was to examine the positive impact of extra DOFs (redundant DOFs) during force production tasks. For this purpose, an experimental setup was designed to simulate archery-like shooting, and purposeful organization of a redundant set of finger forces determined the stability of important performance variables as well as accurate and precise performance. DOFs were adjusted by changing the number of fingers explicitly involved in the task. The concept of motor synergy and computational framework of uncontrolled manifold (UCM) approach was used to quantify stability indices during finger force production. As a result, accuracy and precision of the task improved with an increase in DOFs. Also, the stability indices of net finger forces and moment increased with active DOFs of fingers. We concluded that the controller actively utilizes extra DOFs to increase the stability of the performanc...Continue Reading

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