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  1. Chapter

    Embodiment and Humanoid Robotics

    The concept of embodimentSacheintragembodiment (i.e. of a bodily basis) of human cognitionSacheintragcognition has a long history in philosophy and...
    Thomas Mergner, Michael Funk, Vittorio Lippi in Philosophisches Handbuch Künstliche Intelligenz
    2024
  2. Conference paper

    Performance Indicators of Humanoid Posture Control and Balance Inspired by Human Experiments

    Posture control and maintaining balance are fundamental elements of humanoid robot control and have a significant impact for the performance of...
    Vittorio Lippi, Thomas Mergner, ... Thomas Seel in Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends
    2022
  3. Conference paper

    Human-Likeness Indicator for Robot Posture Control and Balance

    Similarly to humans, humanoid robots require posture control and balance to walk and interact with the environment. In this work posture control in...
    Vittorio Lippi, Christoph Maurer, Thomas Mergner in Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems
    2022
  4. Chapter

    Benchmarking Human Likeness of Bipedal Robot Locomotion: State of the Art and Future Trends

    The difficulty of defining standard benchmarks for human likeness is a well-know problem in bipedal robotics. This chapter reviews methods and...
    Diego Torricelli, Rahman S. M. Mizanoor, ... Jose L. Pons in Metrics of Sensory Motor Coordination and Integration in Robots and Animals
    2020
  5. Reference work entry

    Human Sense of Balance

    This overview describes human posture control mechanisms combining biomechanics with neural control and sensory feedback aspects. The control enables...
    Thomas Mergner, Robert J. Peterka in Humanoid Robotics: A Reference
    2019
  6. Living reference work entry

    Embodiment and Humanoid Robotics

    The concept of embodimentSacheintragembodiment (i.e. of a bodily basis) of human cognitionSacheintragcognition has a long history in philosophy and...
    Thomas Mergner, Michael Funk, Vittorio Lippi in Philosophisches Handbuch Künstliche Intelligenz
    2019
  7. Living reference work entry

    Human Sense of Balance

    This overview describes human posture control mechanisms combining biomechanics with neural control and sensory feedback aspects. The control enables...
    Thomas Mergner, Robert J. Peterka in Humanoid Robotics: A Reference
    2017
  8. Conference paper

    Human-Inspired Humanoid Balancing and Posture Control in Frontal Plane

    Human balancing can be modeled for the sagittal and frontal planes using double inverted pendulum (DIP) biomechanics representations. The DIP...
    Vittorio Lippi, Thomas Mergner, ... Teresa Zielińska in ROMANSY 21 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control
    2016
  9. Conference paper

    Human-Like Sensor Fusion Implemented in the Posture Control of a Bipedal Robot

    Posture control represents the basis for many human sensorimotor activities such as standing, walking or reaching. It involves inputs from joint...
    Georg Hettich, Vittorio Lippi, Thomas Mergner in Neurotechnology, Electronics, and Informatics
    2015
  10. Conference paper

    Benchmarking Human-Like Posture and Locomotion of Humanoid Robots: A Preliminary Scheme

    The difficulty in defining standard benchmarks for human likeness is a well-known problem in bipedal robotics. This paper proposes the conceptual...
    Diego Torricelli, Rahman S. M. Mizanoor, ... Jose Louis Pons in Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems
    2014
  11. Book

    Current Oculomotor Research Physiological and Psychological Aspects

    This volume contains the proceedings of the Ninth European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 9), held in Ulm, Germany, on September 23-26, 1997. ECEM...
    Wolfgang Becker, Heiner Deubel, Thomas Mergner
    1999
  12. Article

    Contribution of visual velocity and displacement cues to human balancing of support surface tilt

    Vision helps humans in controlling bipedal stance, interacting mainly with vestibular and proprioceptive cues. This study investigates how postural...

    Lorenz Assländer, Georg Hettich, ... Thomas Mergner in Experimental Brain Research
    18 May 2013
  13. Book

    Akustisch evozierte Potentiale (AEP) in Klinik und Praxis

    Dieses Buch gibt eine einfache Einführung in die Anfertigung und Befundung von akustisch evozierten Potentialen (AEP), wie sie routinemäßig in der...
    Thomas Mergner, Alois Ebner, Lüder Deecke
    1989
  14. Article

    Potential roles of force cues in human stance control

    Human stance is inherently unstable. A small deviation from upright body orientation is enough to yield a gravitational component in the ankle joint...

    Christian Cnyrim, Thomas Mergner, Christoph Maurer in Experimental Brain Research
    14 February 2009
  15. Chapter

    Sensorimotor Control of Human Dynamic Behavior in Space Implemented into a Hominoid Robot

    To what extent can we claim nowadays that we understand sensorimotor control of human dynamic behavior in space? We try here to answer this question...
    Thomas Mergner, Christoph Maurer, Georg Schweigart in Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception
    2007
  16. Article

    Idiopathic spasmodic torticollis is not associated with abnormal kinesthetic perception from neck proprioceptive and vestibular afferences

    Proceeding from recent evidence for a sensory involvement in the pathophysiology of idiopathic spasmodic torticollis (ST), we asked whether the...

    Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Gregor Nasios, ... Christoph Maurer in Journal of Neurology
    01 May 2003
  17. Article

    Neck proprioception compensates for age-related deterioration of vestibular self-motion perception

    Vestibular functions are known to show some deterioration with age. Vestibular deterioration is often thought to be compensated for by an increase...

    Georg Schweigart, Rey-Djin Chien, Thomas Mergner in Experimental Brain Research
    01 November 2002
  18. Article

    What is pathological with gaze shift fragmentation in Parkinson's disease?

    Oculomotor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) is mainly characterized by a fragmentation of memory-guided gaze shifts (target is reached by...

    Hubert Kimmig, Katja Haußmann, ... Carl H. Lücking in Journal of Neurology
    01 June 2002
  19. Chapter

    Sensory Contributions to the Control of Stance

    We present the outline of a dual kinetic-kinematic postural control model. It is based on concepts of inter-sensory interaction (sensor fusion) which...
    Thomas Mergner, Christoph Maurer, Robert J. Peterka in Sensorimotor Control of Movement and Posture
    2002
  20. Conference paper

    Lokal-trilineare Bewegungskorrektur in der MR-Mammographie

    Kontrastmittel-gestützte MR-Mammographie wird zur Diagnose von Mammakarzinomen in Fällen unklarer Aussagen von Ultraschall und Röntgenuntersuchung...
    Harald Fischer, Claudia Ehritt-Braun, ... Thomas Mergner in Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin 1998
    1998
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