{"title":"Tactile control of balance","authors":"L. Johannsen, A. Wing, M. Redfern","doi":"10.4249/scholarpedia.6724","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The stability of a mechanical system may be defined as the time taken to return to its initial state when perturbed by external forces or torques.","PeriodicalId":74760,"journal":{"name":"Scholarpedia journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"6724"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Scholarpedia journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4249/scholarpedia.6724","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The stability of a mechanical system may be defined as the time taken to return to its initial state when perturbed by external forces or torques.