Evolution of human walking

CO Lovejoy - Scientific American, 1988 - JSTOR
… Features of her pelvis show that a three-million-year-old hominid, Lucy, was as adept at
upright walking as we are. Bipedality could date from the earliest phase of human evolution …

The special nature of human walking and its neural control

C Capaday - TRENDS in Neurosciences, 2002 - cell.com
… on the neural control of human walking with similar studies in … mechanisms in walking cats
and humans. However, … preparations have little influence during human walking. A cat whose …

Dynamic optimization of human walking

FC Anderson, MG Pandy - J. Biomech. Eng., 2001 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
… Most attempts to quantify in vivo muscle forces in humans … that previous solutions for walking
have been greatly simplified. … optimization solution for normal walking on level ground. Our …

Experimental identification and analytical modelling of human walking forces: Literature review

V Racic, A Pavic, JMW Brownjohn - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2009 - Elsevier
… Dynamic forces induced by humans walking change … Since these important aspects of
walking forces have not been … and analytical characterizations of human walking loading. …

Motor patterns in human walking and running

G Cappellini, YP Ivanenko… - Journal of …, 2006 - journals.physiology.org
… We examined the differences between walking and running … and trunk muscles during
human locomotion, and compared … human subjects over a range of speeds during both walking

The antiquity of human walking

J Napier - Scientific American, 1967 - JSTOR
Human walking is a unique activity during which the body, … of this human trait is particu larly
noteworthy because walking … only clarifies the course of human evolution but also helps to …

Individual characteristics of human walking mechanics

L Bianchi, D Angelini, F Lacquaniti - Pflügers Archiv, 1998 - Springer
… doing less mechanical work than a different subject walking at the same speed should be …
Here we have studied a large population of subjects walking under comparable conditions …

[图书][B] Human walking in virtual environments

walking interfaces that can allow for realistic, natural behaviors. This book aims to present
an overview of what is currently understood about human … on human locomotion and walking

Realistic human walking paths

DC Brogan, NL Johnson - Proceedings 11th IEEE International …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… The problem domain we address is individual human walking in a static environment from
an arbitrary start location to a predetermined, static goal location, goal facing, and goal speed. …

Human walking estimation with radar

P van Dorp, FCA Groen - IEE Proceedings-Radar, Sonar and Navigation, 2003 - IET
… The animator is interested in realistic human motion models. In this paper we focus on the
estimation of human walking parameters from radar data. For observing humans, radar has …