Replicating human brain mechanisms towards balancing

摘要

Understanding the performance of the human brain to stabilize the body remains an open fundamental research question. In this article, we study the hypothesis of internal model of the Central Nervous System (CNS) by a novel proposed architecture based on a recurrent neural network. The overall objective of the article and the main contribution stems from demonstrating the capability of replicating the balancing mechanisms of the brain by training the proposed bio-inspired network architecture with human balancing data and in the sequel applying the resulting control structure for controlling a single link inverted pendulum. Towards this direction, the body kinetics and kinematics measurements of forty-five subjects during upright stance trails were collected and utilized for training the proposed neural network. The efficacy of the proposed scheme will be proven through multiple simulation results with a single link inverted pendulum, where it will be demonstrated that the brain-inspired control scheme achieves a proper balance. Keywords: Internal model, recurrent neural network, human motor control, postural control.