WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control

Liu，Quanying1; Nakahira，Yorie2; Liang，Zhichao3; Mohideen，Ahkeel2; Dai，Adam2; Choi，Sung Hoon2; Pan，Angelina2; Ho，Dimitar M.2; Doyle，John C.2

2020-08-15

10.3791/61092

Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments   影响因子和分区

1940-087X

1940-087X

Feedback control theory has been extensively implemented to theoretically model human sensorimotor control. However, experimental platforms capable of manipulating important components of multiple feedback loops lack development. This paper describes WheelCon, an open-source platform aimed at resolving such insufficiencies. Using only a computer, a standard display, and inexpensive gaming steering wheel equipped with a force feedback motor, WheelCon safely simulates the canonical sensorimotor task of riding a mountain bike down a steep, twisting, bumpy trail. The platform provides flexibility, as will be demonstrated in the demos provided, so that researchers may manipulate the disturbances, delay, and quantization (data rate) in the layered feedback loops, including a high-level advanced plan layer and a low-level delayed reflex layer. In this paper, we illustrate WheelCon's graphical user interface (GUI), the input and output of existing demos, and how to design new games. In addition, we present the basic feedback model and the experimental results from the demo games, which align well with the model's prediction. The WheelCon platform can be downloaded at https://github.com/Doyle-Lab/WheelCon. In short, the platform is featured to be cheap, simple to use, and flexible to program for effective sensorimotor neuroscience research and control engineering education.

SCI

英语

第一

High-level University Fund[G02386301][G02386401] ; Guangdong Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund[2019A1515111038]

Science & Technology - Other Topics

Multidisciplinary Sciences

WOS:000585824100014

JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS

2-s2.0-85090108323

Scopus

1.Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology; Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology; Neuroscience Center, Huntington Medical Research Institutes;
2.Division of Engineering and Applied Science,California Institute of Technology,
3.Department of Biomedical Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,

Liu，Quanying,Nakahira，Yorie,Liang，Zhichao,et al. WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control[J]. Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments,2020(162).

Liu，Quanying.,Nakahira，Yorie.,Liang，Zhichao.,Mohideen，Ahkeel.,Dai，Adam.,...&Doyle，John C..(2020).WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control.Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments(162).

Liu，Quanying,et al."WheelCon: A Wheel Control-Based Gaming Platform for Studying Human Sensorimotor Control".Jove-Journal of Visualized Experiments .162(2020).