Vestibular humanoid postural control.

Many of our motor activities require stabilization against external disturbances. This especially applies to biped stance since it is inherently unstable. Disturbance compensation is mainly reactive, depending on sensory inputs and real-time sensor fusion.

Posture control in vestibular-loss patients.

Patients with chronic bilateral loss of vestibular functions normally replace these by visual or haptic referencing to stationary surroundings, resulting in an almost normal stance control. But with eyes closed, they show abnormally large body sway, and may tend to fall when there are external disturbances to the body or when standing on an unstable support surface. Patients' postural responses depend on joint angle proprioception and ground reaction-force cues (occasionally referred to as "somatosensory graviception").