Quantitative Evaluation of the Intersegmental Coordination during Human Locomotion

• Funato Tetsuro

  Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

• Aoi Shinya

  Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University

• Tsuchiya Kazuo

  Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• ヒトの歩行における全身の関節協調動作の定量的評価

Abstract

Human keeps high correlation among his joint motions during locomotion, and this correlation is considered to take an important role on the control of the joints and muscles, which is characterized as a redundant system. The analysis of the correlation of the recorded joint movement extracts a few simultaneously activating segmental coordination patterns, and the structure of the intersegmental coordination is attracting attention expecting its relationship with control strategy. This research proposes a method to quantitatively evaluate the intersegmental coordination as a combination of the jacobian of a few characteristic points. By applying the proposed method to the motion of 7 joints, including both limbs and trunk, this research showed that the transition of COM and rotation of ankles can represent the whole body movement.

Journal

• Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan

  Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan 28 (8), 996-1003, 2010

  The Robotics Society of Japan

Keywords

• Human Locomotion
• Intersegmental Coordination
• Singular Value Decomposition
• Jacobian

Details

• CRID: 1390001204724859264
• NII Article ID: 130002152483
• DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.28.996
• ISSN: 18847145
• ISSN: 02891824
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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  • CiNii Articles
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed