Modelling velocity profiles of rapid movements: a comparative study

In this paper we compare 23 different models that can be used to describe the asymmetric bell-shaped velocity profiles of rapid-aimed movements. The comparison is performed with the help of an analysis-bysynthesis experiment over a database of 1052 straight lines produced by nine human subjects. For each line and for each model, a set of parameters is extracted that minimizes the error between the original and the reconstructed data. Performance analysis on the basis of the mean-square-error clearly reflects the superiority of the support-bounded lognormal model to globally describe the velocity profile characterizing rapid movements.