Delay and Uncertainty in Human Balancing Tasks

Tamas Insperger is a professor and chairperson of the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the group leader of the MTA-BME Lendület Human Balancing Research group.  He is an author with Gabor Stepan of the book “Semi-discretization for time-delay systems”.John Milton is a professor of computational neuroscience at The Claremont Colleges. He has authored three books: “Mathematics as a Laboratory tool: Dynamics, delays and noise” with Toru Ohira, “Epilepsy as a dynamic disease” with Peter Jung and “Dynamics of small neural populations”.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Background.- 3. Pole Balancing at the Fingertip.- 4. Sensory Dead Zones: Switching Feedback.- 5. Microchaos in Balance Control.- 6. Postural Sway During Quiet Standing.- 7. Stability Radii and Uncertainty in Balance Control.- 8. Challenges for the Future.- References.- Semi-discretization Method.- Stability Radii: Some Mathematical Aspects.- Index.

“The book is well and balanced writing.” (Andrey Zahariev, zbMATH 1484.92001, 2022)