Amir Karniel - Research Activities
Areas of interest
- Computational and Biological Motor Control, Motor Learning, Neural Networks, Human-Machine Interfaces, Brain Theory, Robotics.
Semi Popular Introduction
- An interview by Yuval Dror in HAARETZ [English pdf] [Hebrew pdf]
- An interview in ABG [Hebrew jpg]
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Selected current and recent research activities
- A review about computational motor control – Open Questions in Computational Motor Control [Karniel 2011]
- See Publication list for more recent papers describing our current research activities
- A Turing-Like Handshake Test for Motor Intelligence [Karniel et al 2010]
- A new, simple and accurate method for onset detection of movement [Botzer and Karniel 2009] [matlab function]
- Studying the perception of delayed stiffness [Pressman et al.] and its relation to force and position control [Nisky et al] and the probing joint [Nisky et al] as well as adaptation to the boundary location during perception of stiffness task [Pressman et al.]
- Applying optimal control techniques to study trajectory formation, we propose a Minimum acceleration with constraints criteria for the formation of reaching movements, see Karniel and Ben-Itzhak Neural Computation 2008 [abstract]
- Exploring perception of and adaptation to delay during motor control - A BSF funded study with Prof. Mussa-Ivaldi, see Pressman et al. in press [abstract]
- Studying possible methods by which the brain may employ direct and indirect mapping as it learns to control artificial limbs and extended environments, see Leibowitz and Karniel (2005) [ abstract ]
- Bimanual adaptation and coordination, see Karniel et al SFN 2003 [abstract] Klaiman and Karniel in press [abstract]
- The Minimum Transition Hypothesis: exploring the structure of muscle synergies see Karniel et al. NCM 2002 [abstract]
- Exploring motor adaptation to force perturbations.
Some of the questions that we recently addressed concern our ability to represent time and the issue of multiple models. See Karniel and Mussa-Ivaldi, Biological Cybernetics (2003) [ abstract ], and Experimental Brain Research (2002) [ abstract ]. - Exploring the function of the lamprey’s brainstem as
it controls a two-wheeled robot in a closed loop.
Our current studies include modeling the neural network and trying to induce and observe adaptation. See Karniel et al. SAB workshop (2002) [ abstract ], Kositski et al. (2003) [paper pdf] - Artificial neural networks for control and internal
models for motor control:
1. A correspondence about different types of internal forward models, Neural Networks (2002) [ abstract ]
2. An analysis of various methods for estimating an inverse model for control.
See BEI vs. IBE, Neural Networks, 14(9):1153-1159, 2001 [manuscript] - Rehabilitation: A book review describing the field of
motor control for the physically disabled.
See Karniel 2001(about Popovic and Sinkjaer 2000), Automatica 37:964-967 [manuscript] - Controlling redundant system with a multiple
controller architecture named PMLE.
The basic architecture and some of the theoretical results have recently published in Neurocomputing 37:31-49, 2001 . For further details about this architecture refer to my PhD thesis [pdf of chapters 5-6 ] . - A summery of my graduate studies that included demonstration of the role of the nonlinear muscle properties (Karniel and Inbar 97,99, [ abstract ]) and exploiting redundancy appeared at WC2000 [abstract]
For further details refer to my publications list