title: Predictive simulation generates human adaptations during loaded and inclined walking.
abstract: Predictive simulation is a powerful approach for analyzing human locomotion. Unlike techniques that track experimental data, predictive simulations synthesize gaits by minimizing a high-level objective such as metabolic energy expenditure while satisfying task requirements like achieving a target velocity. The fidelity of predictive gait simulations has only been systematically evaluated for locomotion data on flat ground. In this study, we construct a predictive simulation framework based on energy minimization and use it to generate normal walking, along with walking with a range of carried loads and up a range of inclines. The simulation is muscle-driven and includes controllers based on muscle force and stretch reflexes and contact state of the legs. We demonstrate how human-like locomotor strategies emerge from adapting the model to a range of environmental changes. Our simulation dynamics not only show good agreement with experimental data for normal walking on flat ground (92% of joint angle trajectories and 78% of joint torque trajectories lie within 1 standard deviation of experimental data), but also reproduce many of the salient changes in joint angles, joint moments, muscle coordination, and metabolic energy expenditure observed in experimental studies of loaded and inclined walking.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Tim W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Dorn
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Jack M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.
authors.forename: Scott L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Delp
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D005684:Gait / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007719:Knee Joint / Q000502:physiology; D008954:Models, Biological; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000502:physiology; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology*
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