How Healthy Older Adults Enact Lateral Maneuvers While Walking.

Background: Walking requires frequent maneuvers to navigate changing environments with shifting goals. Humans accomplish maneuvers and simultaneously maintain balance primarily by modulating their foot placement, but a direct trade-off between these two objectives has been proposed. As older adults may rely more on foot placement to maintain lateral balance, they may be less able to adequately adapt stepping to perform lateral maneuvers.

Generalizing stepping concepts to non-straight walking.

People rarely walk in straight lines. Instead, we make frequent turns or other maneuvers. Spatiotemporal parameters fundamentally characterize gait.

Generalizing Stepping Concepts To Non-Straight Walking.

People rarely walk in straight lines. Instead, we make frequent turns or other maneuvers. Spatiotemporal parameters fundamentally characterize gait.

How Healthy Older Adults Enact Lateral Maneuvers While Walking.

Background: Walking requires frequent maneuvers to navigate changing environments with shifting goals. Humans accomplish maneuvers and simultaneously maintain balance primarily by modulating their foot placement, but a direct trade-off between these two objectives has been proposed. As older adults rely more on foot placement to maintain lateral balance, they may be less able to adequately adapt stepping to perform lateral maneuvers.

Adaptive multi-objective control explains how humans make lateral maneuvers while walking.

To successfully traverse their environment, humans often perform maneuvers to achieve desired task goals while simultaneously maintaining balance. Humans accomplish these tasks primarily by modulating their foot placements. As humans are more unstable laterally, we must better understand how humans modulate lateral foot placement.