Some insights into the dynamics of human gait: applications to healthy adults, children and amputees
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Date: 22 OCTOBER 2025 from 17:30 to 19:00
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Event location: Aula III via Francesco Selmi 2 - Bologna, Piano Terra.
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Type: Lectures
Speaker
ISA Visiting Fellow - Raphael Dumas
Research Director University Gustave Eiffel, France
ATTENDANCE
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in presence - book your seat
Book your seat within October 22, 12 p.m. The places will be assigned on “first come first served” basis.
The accessibility of the building is barrier-free, with pathway from the side entrance with building slide to the classroom located on the ground floor. Also available to persons with disabilities is a single-seat anthropometric bench with variable elevation and tilt positioned near the desk.
A comprehensive biomechanical analysis of gait dynamics can be performed with multi-body (musculoskeletal) simulations which are complicated to develop for populations such as children or persons with a lower limb amputation. In this presentation, we review several approaches based on inverse pendulum principle and joint moment computations and review several biomechanical parameters to analyse the stability and control of human gait. Applications to young children and above-knee amputees reveal different walking strategies compared to healthy adults. Several remarks illustrate the role of passive structures (soft tissues and tendons, prosthetic components) in the dynamics of human gait.