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Humans can overcome the 150 ms time delay of the smooth pursuit eye movement system and track smoothly moving visual targets with zero-latency. Our target-selective adaptive control model can also overcome an inherent time delay and produce zero-latency tracking. No other model or man-made system can do this. Our model is physically realizable and physiologically realistic. The technique used in our model should be useful for analyzing other time-delay systems, such as man-machine systems and robots.
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Bahill, A.T., McDonald, J.D. Model emulates human smooth pursuit system producing zero-latency target tracking. Biol. Cybern. 48, 213–222 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00318089
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