Control of human gait stability through foot placement

SM Bruijn, JH Van Dieën - Journal of The Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During human walking, the centre of mass (CoM) is outside the base of support for most of
the time, which poses a challenge to stabilizing the gait pattern. Nevertheless, most of us are …

Peripheral vision in real-world tasks: A systematic review

C Vater, B Wolfe, R Rosenholtz - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2022 - Springer
Peripheral vision is fundamental for many real-world tasks, including walking, driving, and
aviation. Nonetheless, there has been no effort to connect these applied literatures to …

Legged locomotion in challenging terrains using egocentric vision

A Agarwal, A Kumar, J Malik… - Conference on robot …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Animals are capable of precise and agile locomotion using vision. Replicating this ability
has been a long-standing goal in robotics. The traditional approach has been to decompose …

Robot parkour learning

Z Zhuang, Z Fu, J Wang, C Atkeson… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Parkour is a grand challenge for legged locomotion that requires robots to overcome various
obstacles rapidly in complex environments. Existing methods can generate either diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Gaze and the control of foot placement when walking in natural terrain

JS Matthis, JL Yates, MM Hayhoe - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Human locomotion through natural environments requires precise coordination between the
biomechanics of the bipedal gait cycle and the eye movements that gather the information …

Allsteps: curriculum‐driven learning of stepping stone skills

Z Xie, HY Ling, NH Kim… - Computer Graphics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Humans are highly adept at walking in environments with foot placement constraints,
including stepping‐stone scenarios where footstep locations are fully constrained. Finding …

Gaze-in-wild: A dataset for studying eye and head coordination in everyday activities

R Kothari, Z Yang, C Kanan, R Bailey, JB Pelz… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The study of gaze behavior has primarily been constrained to controlled environments in
which the head is fixed. Consequently, little effort has been invested in the development of …

Vision and action

MM Hayhoe - Annual review of vision science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Investigation of natural behavior has contributed a number of insights to our understanding
of visual guidance of actions by highlighting the importance of behavioral goals and …

Retinal optic flow during natural locomotion

JS Matthis, KS Muller, KL Bonnen… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We examine the structure of the visual motion projected on the retina during natural
locomotion in real world environments. Bipedal gait generates a complex, rhythmic pattern …

The critical phase for visual control of human walking over complex terrain

JS Matthis, SL Barton, BR Fajen - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
To walk efficiently over complex terrain, humans must use vision to tailor their gait to the
upcoming ground surface without interfering with the exploitation of passive mechanical …