Realistic overground gait transitions are not sharp but involve gradually changing walk-run mixtures as per energy optimality

2025-01-01 · Nicholas S. Baker, Leroy Long, Manoj Srinivasan

Humans use two qualitatively different gaits for locomotion, namely, walking and running -- usually using walking at lower speeds and running at higher speeds. Researchers have examined when humans switch between walking and running on treadmills and have noted hystereses in these gait transition speeds. Here, we consider an ecologically realistic overground locomotion task, one requiring traveling a given long distance (800 meters or 2400 meters) in a prescribed time duration. Unlike on a treadmill, this task allows the human to change speed or gait during the trial to reach the destination on time: this task is akin to traveling to an appointment at a particular time from your office to another office, arriving neither early or late. We find that gait transition is not sharp, but instead involves a 'gait transition regime' in which humans use a mixture of walking and running, using mostly walking atlower speeds and mostly running higher speeds -- supporting earlier results over short distances (120 m). The presence of this gradually changing walk-run mixture is predicted by energy optimality. We hypothesize that this energy optimal behavior in this realistic overground conditions accounts for the hysteretic behavior in treadmill experiments, apparently switching earlier than predicted by energy optimality.

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