In this paper, we analyze the micro-Doppler signatures of elderly gait patterns in the presence of walking aids using radars. The signatures are based on real data experiments conducted in a laboratory environment using human subjects walking with a walking cane and a walker. Short-time Fourier transform is used to provide the local signal behavior over frequency and to detail the changes in th...

In daily lives, humans successfully transit their motions rather than performing separate movements. It has been widely acknowledged that there are four and five modules (called muscle synergy) in human sit-to-stand and walking motions, but it was still unclear how humans activate their redundant muscles to transit their movement from sitting to walking. Therefore this study hypothesize that hu...

A more human-compatible design of exosuits provides new aspects in assisting people. This study presents a novel bioinspired method to and control an exosuit support human locomotion. We introduce methodological development the BATEX as with compliant biarticular thigh actuators. By using serie...

We have investigated actual and perceived human performance associated with a simple task involving walking and applied the developed knowledge to a human-robot interaction. Based on experiments involving walking at a “purposeful and comfortable” pace, parameters were determined for a trapezoidal model of walking: starting from standing still, accelerating to a constant pace, walking at a const...

The robots that will be needed in the near future are human‐friendly robots that are able to coexist with humans and support humans effectively. To realize this, it is necessary for a robot to carry out human tracking as one of its human‐affinitive movements. In this research, a predictable robotic space is introduced in order for a robot to follow a walking human by the shor...

The need for simulation of human foot mechanism has made researchers and engineers move towards different patterns to describe this movement. In this regard, optimal solutions such as energy consumption, accuracy, etc. are of utmost importance. In this paper, efforts have been made to present a new solution by designing a fully two-dimensional six-bar mechanism with one degree of freedom so tha...

BACKGROUND Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviour are major threats to population health. A considerable proportion of people own dogs, and there is good evidence that dog ownership is associated with higher levels of physical activity. However not all owners walk their dogs regularly. This paper comprehensively reviews the evidence for correlates of dog walking so that effective intervent...

A novel approach to human motion recognition is proposed that is based on a variation of the Nonlinear Transient Computation Machine (NTCM). The motion data used to train the NTCM comes from point-light display video sequences of a human walking. The NTCM is trained to distinguish between sequences of video frames that depict coordinated walking motion from those that depict uncoordinated (random)

In Figure 1F, the number 0.24 should be 2.4 instead. The incorrect Froude number given for human walking (0.24) corresponds to 1.5m/s, which is closer to the preferred speed of human walking. The correct number now given (2.4) corresponds to a speed of about 4.6m/s.