Walking dynamics are symmetric (enough)

Date

2015-07-06

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Ankaralı, Mustafa Mert
Madhav, Manu S.
Long, Andrew
Bastian, Amy J.
Cowan, Noah J.

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Many biological phenomena such as locomotion, circadian cycles and breathing are rhythmic in nature and can be modelled as rhythmic dynamical systems. Dynamical systems modelling often involves neglecting certain characteristics of a physical system as a modelling convenience. For example, human locomotion is frequently treated as symmetric about the sagittal plane. In this work, we test this assumption by examining human walking dynamics around the steady state (limit-cycle). Here, we adapt statistical cross-validation in order to examine whether there are statistically significant asymmetries and, even if so, test the consequences of assuming bilateral symmetry anyway. Indeed, we identify significant asymmetries in the dynamics of human walking, but nevertheless show that ignoring these asymmetries results in a more consistent and predictive model. In general, neglecting evident characteristics of a system can be more than a modelling convenience it can produce a better model.

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Biotechnology, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48527

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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE

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https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2015.0209

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Article

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M. M. Ankaralı, M. S. Madhav, A. Long, A. J. Bastian, and N. J. Cowan, “Walking dynamics are symmetric (enough),” JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INTERFACE, pp. 0–0, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/48527.