Research
In my M.Sc thesis research (also carried out at the Weizmann institute under the supervision of Prof. Tamar Flash) I focused on human locomotion, developing an analytical model that accounted for the intersegmental coordination patterns observed during locomotion.
We developed a mathematical model that explains the conditions for the observed phenomenon of the intersegmental planar coordination to hold. The model also accounts for the plane orientation as it changes with a change in gait speed. For more information, read more about it here.
We applied extensions of this work in a study investigating the affects of different emotions on human locomotion. In addition, this work is recently being used to study how the gait of Cerebral Palsy (CP) patients is affected compared to healthy subjects.
In my PhD dissertation I am tackling the redundancy problem in the human arm during the execution of movements in 3D space. There, I investigate different arm representations in order to uncover a reduced dimensional space in which the different degrees of freedom (DOF) are constrained. Such representations might offer a way to simplify movement generation strategies.