Effects of Mass on Metabolic Cost of Arm Reaching

Updated:

This is more detailed in my presentation of RMASB 2019.

In a nutshell, we wanted to determine if metabolic cost of arm reaching could predict the preferred reaching durations of people making reaching movements. The metabolic cost minimum turned out to not be a very good predictor of preferred movement duration. A utility model, however, can predict the preferred movement duration very well.