Balance is an essential capability to ensure upright standing and locomotion. Various
external perturbations challenge our balance in daily life and increase the risk for falling and …

This paper provides an update on the neural control of bipedal walking in relation to
bioinspired models and robots. It is argued that most current models or robots are based on …

This paper describes an approach for the real-time detection of stumble for use in an
intelligent lower limb prosthesis, using accelerometers mounted on the prosthesis, and also …

Background Recovering from trips is challenging for transfemoral amputees, and attempts
often result in falls. Better understanding of the effects of the sensory-motor deficits brought …

Humanoid robots are expected to share human environments in the future and it is important
to ensure the safety of their operation. A serious threat to safety is the fall of such robots …

Healthy adults employ one of three primary strategies to recover from stumble perturbations—
elevating, lowering, or delayed lowering. The basis upon which each recovery strategy is …

Construction is widely known as having high rates of fall accidents. In spite of constant
technological advances and increasing process automation, manual material handling still …

Individuals with Parkinson's disease and the aged have a high prevalence of falls. Since an
increase in the number of falls is associated with physical and psychological harm, it is …

A variety of impressive approaches to legged locomotion exist; however, the science of
legged robotics is still far from demonstrating a solution which performs with a level of …

In this work, we propose and implement an enhanced methodology for assessing the impact
of wearing a lower limb passive exoskeleton on the gait and posture of the wearer …