What is it about?
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.
Featured Image
Photo by Cory Schadt on Unsplash
Why is it important?
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.
Perspectives
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
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The kinematics of cyclic human movement, PLoS ONE, March 2020, PLOS, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0225157.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page