Topic: inverse optimal control

Normative computational models of sensorimotor behavior based on optimal feedback control with signal-dependent noise (Todorov, 2005) have been able to account for many phenomena including online corrections, redundancy, synergies, and uncontrolled manifolds of movements. In past research, a cost function needed to be assumed for the respective task, and agreement between the predictions of optimal behavior by the model and empirical movement trajectories had to be assessed. However, not all behavioral goals may be known a priori and costs internal to the subject such as biomechanical or subje