Title
Filtering Compensation for Delays and Prediction Errors during Sensorimotor Control.
Abstract
Compensating for sensorimotor noise and for temporal delays has been identified as a major function of the nervous system. However, the aspects have often been described separately in the frameworks of optimal cue combination or motor prediction during movement planning. But control-theoretic models suggest that these two operations are performed simultaneously, and mounting evidence supports that motor commands are based on sensory predictions rather than sensory states. In this letter, we study the benefit of state estimation for predictive sensorimotor control. More precisely, we combine explicit compensation for sensorimotor delays and optimal estimation derived in the context of Kalman filtering. We show, based on simulations of human-inspired eye and arm movements, that filtering sensory predictions improves the stability margin of the system against prediction errors due to low-dimensional predictions or to errors in the delay estimate. These simulations also highlight that prediction errors qualitatively account for a broad variety of movement disorders typically associated with cerebellar dysfunctions. We suggest that adaptive filtering in cerebellum, instead of often-assumed feedforward predictions, may achieve simple compensation for sensorimotor delays and support stable closed-loop control of movements.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1162/neco_a_01170
Neural computation
Field
DocType
Volume
Sensorimotor control,Filter (signal processing),Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
31
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1530-888X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F. Crevecoeur1122.39
Michel Gevers2506106.82