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  1. A unified energy-optimality criterion predicts human navigation paths and speeds

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  2. The metabolic cost of changing walking speeds is significant, implies lower optimal speeds for shorter distances, and increases daily energy estimates

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  3. Stepping in the direction of the fall: the next foot placement can be predicted from current upper body state in steady-state walking

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  4. Sideways walking: preferred is slow, slow is optimal, and optimal is expensive

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  5. People Bouncing on Trampolines: Dramatic Energy Transfer, a Table-Top Demonstration, Complex Dynamics and a Zero Sum Game

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2013, PLOS

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  6. Walking, running, and resting under time, distance, and average speed constraints: optimality of walk-run-rest mixtures

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, January 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  7. System Identification and Stability Analysis of Steady Human Walking and the Swing Leg Dynamics

    Article • October 2012, ASME International

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  8. Fifteen observations on the structure of energy-minimizing gaits in many simple biped models

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, June 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  9. Binding site models of friction due to the formation and rupture of bonds: State-function formalism, force-velocity relations, response to slip velocity transients, and slip stability

    Article • Physical Review E, October 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  10. Chaos in a soda can: Non-periodic rocking of upright cylinders with sensitive dependence on initial conditions

    Article • Mechanics Research Communications, September 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  11. Optimal speeds for walking and running, and walking on a moving walkway

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, June 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  12. Rocking and rolling: A can that appears to rock might actually roll

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  13. How well can spring-mass-like telescoping leg models fit multi-pedal sagittal-plane locomotion data?

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  14. Idealized walking and running gaits minimize work

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, July 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  15. A collisional model of the energetic cost of support work qualitatively explains leg sequencing in walking and galloping, pseudo-elastic leg behavior in running and the walk-to-run transition

    Article • Journal of Theoretical Biology, November 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan

  16. Computer optimization of a minimal biped model discovers walking and running

    Article • September 2005, Nature

    Professor Manoj Srinivasan