Review on Theories and Computational Modeling of Motor Control

Human motor control is a comprehensive field which absorbs knowledge gradually from physics, anatomy, physiology, psychology, engineering, neurology, etc.and the researches of human motor control are also from the preliminary human movement describing to the now neuromuscular mechanism.The main problems of human motor control field are redundancy control, abundance control and motor variability which are the abstractions of human movement flexibilities.Researchers proposed several hypotheses and theories about how to solving these problems including Motor Coding, Hierarchy Control, Equilibrium Point Hypothesis, Reference Configuration Hypothesis, Dynamical Action Theory, Riemann manifold, Uncontrolled Manifold, Tolerance-Noise-Covariation, Adaptive Model Theory etc.Some of these hypotheses are focusing on the information transferring in human motor control proceeding and some of them are focusing on the physical processing.Every hypothesis has its limitation and effect which supplies researchers with different view about the human movement control.In the field, researcher focused only the sole articulation, single muscle but human moves as a whole body so if one articulation or muscle were got problem, it perhaps is caused not by the problem articulation but the other articulations or muscle even by the human recognition.For this reason, we need to evaluate the human movement from the whole prospective.Human motor control hypotheses and theories have the very important affections on the training and rehabilitation that physical therapists proposed new rehabilitation methods and renewed the old methods.According to the training method based on the motor control theory can significantly decreased the injury risk of athletes.The research in human motor control field can help to understand the mechanism of sport injuring and the interaction between equipment and human body, to improve the sport performance.