Let the machine do the work: learning to reduce the energetic cost of walking on a split-belt treadmill
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SECTIONSPDFPDFTOOLS SHARE The human body is capable of exploiting mechanical work provided by the external environment. A simple everyday example is the assistance provided by gravity when walking downhill, which can decrease energy cost. In recent decades, there have been numerous attempts to exploit this phenomenon in the form of wearable devices like powered exoskeletons, which can reduce the energy cost of walking (e.g. Malcolm et al . 2013). Such devices could eventually be of value to various human populations, including ageing individuals and those with gait‐related impairments.
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Journal of Physiology
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597
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© YEAR Physiological Society. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Let the machine do the work: learning to reduce the energetic cost of walking on a split-belt treadmill, Journal of Physiology, 2019, 597 (15), pp. 3791-3792, which has been published in final form at 10.1113/JP277725. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Biological sciences
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mechanical work
metabolic cost
split-belt
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Cronin, NJ, Let the machine do the work: learning to reduce the energetic cost of walking on a split-belt treadmill, Journal of Physiology, 2019, 597 (15), pp. 3791-3792