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Parvat Katwal1, Suraj Jaiswal1, Dezhi Jiang1
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland.
Abstract:
This work utilizes a simplified, streamlined approach to study the mechanical cost of transport in human walking. Utilizing the kinematic motion data of the center of mass, velocities and accelerations are determined using kinematic analysis; the applied force is then obtained using inverse dynamics. We calculate the mechanical cost of transport per step from both synthetic and measured data, using a very simple mechanical model of walking. The approach studied can serve as an informative gait characteristic to monitor rehabilitation in human walking.
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