Scientia Iranica

Scientia Iranica

A novel stretching and folding characterization method based on geometrical and physiological traits of chaotic and intermittent tracking signals

Document Type : Research Article

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Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
10.24200/sci.2023.61665.7429
Abstract
The specification of Stretching and Folding (SF) properties, particularly in time series, is of substantial interest. This study seeks to perceive the relationship between SF and irregular discontinuities in hand motion trajectories during target tracking tasks. In this regard, a new method is proposed based on compiling physiological characteristics and hand motion dynamics’ geometrical traits. Thus, five tracking conditions are designed in which participants are instructed to track different target motion patterns. In these experiments, sinusoidal and trapezoidal target movements with frequencies of 0.1 and 0.3 Hz, as well as pseudo-periodic target motion created by summing two sinusoids with frequencies of 0.117 and 0.278 Hz, are used as visual targets. The results illustrate that nonuniform discontinuities are noticeable properties of the hand motion trajectory. Also, the Largest Lyapunov Exponent (LLE), Correlation Dimension (CD), and Fractal Dimension (FD) corroborate that the tracking attractor is low-dimensional and chaotic. Moreover, the results are compared with the Curvature-Based (CB) method, and its modified version is presented by taking advantage of the proposed method. As a result, through the suggested method, SF points are well discerned regardless of discontinuities. This method can deal with systems with intermittency in both time- and state-space.
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Volume 32, Issue 19
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering
November and December 2025 Article ID:7429

  • Receive Date 28 December 2022
  • Revise Date 12 April 2023
  • Accept Date 19 June 2023