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Solution methods for the double-support indeterminacy in human gait

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There is a growing interest in predicting the gait motion of real subjects under virtual conditions, e.g., to anticipate the result of surgery or to help in the design of prosthetic/orthotic devices. To this end, the motion parameters can be considered as the design parameters of an optimization problem. In this context, determination of the joint efforts for a given motion is a required step for the subsequent evaluation of cost function and constraints. In the double-support phase of gait, the ground reaction forces include twelve unknowns, rendering the inverse dynamics problem indeterminate if no force plate data are available. In this paper, several methods for solving the inverse dynamics problem of the human gait during the double-support phase, using force plates or not, are presented and compared.

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The support of this work by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the project DPI2009–13438–C03, cofinanced by the European Union through EFRD funds, is acknowledged. The help from Álvaro Noriega, from University of Oviedo, Spain, in the selection of the optimization algorithm is also acknowledged.

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    Urbano Lugrís, Jairo Carlín & Javier Cuadrado

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Research Centre, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Rosa Pàmies-Vilà & Josep M. Font-Llagunes

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Lugrís, U., Carlín, J., Pàmies-Vilà, R. et al. Solution methods for the double-support indeterminacy in human gait. Multibody Syst Dyn 30, 247–263 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-013-9363-x

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