Falls are one of the most serious implications of the gait disturbance in Neuro-degenerative disease. Some of the major Neuro-degenerative diseases include Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), and Huntington Disease (HD). These diseases are generally unpredictable in their rate of progression and exhibition of degeneration. Neuro-degenerative diseases are caused by los...

This paper presents a system of identifying individuals by their gait patterns. We take into account various distinguishable features that can be extracted from a user's gait and then divide them into two classes: walking pattern and stepping pattern. The conditions we assume are that our target environments are domestic areas, the number of users is smaller than 10, and all users ambulate with...

Objective. To investigate quantitatively and objectively the effects of repeated muscle vibration (rMV) of triceps surae on the gait pattern in a 5-year-old patient with Cerebral Palsy with equinus foot deformity due to calf spasticity. Methods. The patient was assessed before and one month after the rMV treatment using Gait Analysis. Results. rMV had positive effects on the patient's gait patt...

Motion ability is one of the most important human properties, including gait as a basis of human transitional movement. Gait, as a biometric for recognizing human identities, can be non-intrusively captured signals using wearable or portable smart devices. In this study gait patterns is collected using a wireless platform of two sensors located at chest and right ankle of the subjects. Then the...

The authors have proposed a control system of a quadruped locomotion robot by using nonlinear oscillators. It is composed of a leg motion controller and a gait pattern controller. The leg motion controller drives the actuators of the legs by using local feedback control. The gait pattern controller involves nonlinear oscillators with mutual interactions. In this paper, capability of adaptation ...

We propose a novel methodology for predicting human gait pattern kinematics based on a statistical and stochastic approach using a method called Gaussian process regression (GPR). We selected 14 body parameters that significantly affect the gait pattern and 14 joint motions that represent gait kinematics. The body parameter and gait kinematics data were recorded from 113 subjects by anthropomet...

Crouch start technique is the most important factor in Sprint starting. For achieving the best starting moves fitting biomechanical characteristics of the human body, it is necessary to take comparative analysis on crouch start in biomechanics in order to obtain the fastest initial velocity through quick and timely departure from the quiescent state. In this paper carries on the sport biomechan...

i Acknowledgements I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge all the people who helped me during this thesis work. Firstly I would like to thank my advisor, Dr. Carolyn J. Crouch for her invaluable guidance, timely advice and support. I would like to thank my committee members Dr. Donald B. Crouch and Dr. Todd W. Loushine for their suggestions and feedback during the important stages...

The field of exoskeletons and assistive orthotic devices is a multidisciplinary issue in the halfway between medicine and robotics. Within the robotic discipline, bipedal robot gaits are generated as a function of parameters such as stride length, foot clearance and body height. These features allow to adapt the gait to different surface characteristics. However, biped robot gaits do not look a...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to extract suitable spatiotemporal and kinematic parameters to determine how Total Knee Replacement (TKR) alters patients’ knee kinematics during gait, using a rapid and simplified quantitative two-dimensional gait analysis procedure. Methods: Two-dimensional kinematic gait pattern of 10 participants were collected before and after the TKR surgery,...