Planar Crank Turning Measurements for Motor Control Research

Measurements of planar crank turning include crank positions, velocities, forces, moments, and EMG data. This data was collected as part of Joseph Doeringer's PhD thesis and presented in multiple journal and conference papers from MIT. The dataset is associated with code archived on Zenodo and GitHub.

Use Cases

• Modeling the speed-curvature relation in constrained actions based on crank position and velocity data
• Investigating dynamic motor primitives based on force, moment, and EMG measurements
• Analyzing the separation of neural influences from peripheral mechanics using the described experimental protocol

Strengths

• Data is explicitly detailed in the methods sections of multiple peer-reviewed journal papers
• Associated analysis code is publicly archived on Zenodo and GitHub
• Dataset includes multiple synchronized measurement types: positions, velocities, forces, moments, and EMG

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the papers after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Collection Method

Collected during planar crank turning experiments as part of a PhD thesis