Reaction time and EMG measurement applied to human control modeling

The final goal of this research is to analyze the. human visual and force sensory feedback integration related to a manipulation task and build a control model of a human operator. In this primary work the reaction time and the EMG was measured to determine the time lag constant of each subject. The onset time, EMG-RT and the EMD delay was measured and compared to the time lag estimated from step response identification. Although a small discrepancy was found between the directly measured time lag and the estimated one, the system identification method showed a prominent and methodological approach to model the human control system. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.