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Reaching task with force channel
Note: This task has been updated and cleaned up significantly from the first version.
Note 2: I have just updated this again so that there are different force values applied for primary vs. secondary encoder systems.
Note 3: The update I have just added allows the task to be run on the Exoskeleton (not the classic). I have also done some further clean up.
This is a sample task that implements a force channel similar to what is described here:
Scheidt et al. (2000), Persistence of Motor Adaptation During Constrained, Multi-Joint, Arm Movements. J. Neurophys., 84(2): 853-862 (https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.2000.84.2.853)
This sample is just a modified reaching task that implements a force channel between the reaching targets. The supplied protocol has 8 targets 10cm from the center. The configurable parameters are:
- Channel width (width over which there is no force, may be zero)
- Wall width (the width of the virtual wall that will push you back to center)
- Wall stiffness
- Viscosity (viscous force perpendicular to the channel, this is required to keep things stable).
Some other key concepts here are:
- The force channel is ramped up over 1.5s once the destination target is turned on. This stops a potential violent jerk into the channel.
- The forces are ramped down over the last 25% of the wall's width.
- If you break out of the channel then the forces are all off until you re-enter the channel.
Please note that this task is only possible to run on the Kinarm End-Point Lab and new PN 13568 or later Kinarm Exoskeleton lab. The KINARM Exoskeleton Classic Lab and KINARM NHP Labs do not provide appropriate stiffness to make a force channel useful.
Task last tested in Dexterit-E 3.10 and MATLAB 2015a.
For the Kinarm EP, there are 2 different task protocols for each of the 2 different types of EP. Please use the one that corresponds to your Kinarm EP model.