Manipulability is a measure that quantifies the range of possible motions of a robotic end-effector and it is also an important measure in the study of coordination of human upper body and grasping tasks. This measure, which is defined on both the kinematic and dynamic level, could be useful in gait, as it could be used to determine potential foot placement possibilities. Kinematic manipulability is defined based on the Jacobian and dynamic manipulability on both the Jacobian and mass-inertia matrix. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the manipulability of human walking and to explore a possible relation between the manipulability and dynamic stability of walking at different speeds. A 37-DoF tree-like model of the human body was developed to evaluate the manipulability index of human walking. We measured kinematics of 11 healthy male subjects while walking on a treadmill, and mapped the data to the model using inverse kinematics. Jacobian based kinematic/dynamic manipulability measures of walking were evaluated for the swing phase of walking. Manipulability ellipsoids were drawn for geometric determination of this measure in all directions during early, mid- and late swing phases. As stability metrics, the local divergence exponent and Floquet Multipliers were calculated. The results indicated a high kinematic manipulability of the swing foot during early and late swing phases and a drop in kinematic manipulability during mid-swing. Kinematic manipulability of the swing leg during early and late (but not mid-) swing phases increased with walking speed but the average kinematic manipulability of the center of mass and dynamic manipulability of swing foot decreased with increasing walking speed. Moreover, the results showed a weak relation between the manipulability and local and orbital stability.


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    Title :

    On the manipulability of swing foot and stability of human locomotion


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    Publication date :

    2019-06-01


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    Miripour Fard , B & Bruijn , S M 2019 , ' On the manipulability of swing foot and stability of human locomotion ' , Multibody System Dynamics , vol. 46 , no. 2 , pp. 109-125 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11044-018-09664-y



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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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