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The paper specifies the five contributions, which interact to shape the individual walking pattern. Those are morphing, short time fluctuation, transient effect, control mechanism, and random variations.

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Applications are conceivable in the areas medical diagnostics, performance assessment, subject recognition, and robotics. For diagnostics e.g., a scale for diagnosing fatigability in multiples sclerosis patients was developed.

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This article was of primary important for me, since it provides the base for various applications in medicine, robotics, human locomotion, and sports.

Manfred Vieten
Universitat Konstanz

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This page is a summary of: The kinematics of cyclic human movement, PLoS ONE, March 2020, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225157.
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