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This paper overviews a multidisciplinary research effort on the understanding of human locomotion. It addresses the computational principles of locomotion neuroscience via the geometric control of nonholonomic systems. We argue that a human locomotion model can be derived from a top-down approach, by exclusively looking at the shape of locomotor trajectories and by ignoring all the body biomechanical motor controls generating the motions.
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Laumond, J.P., Arechavaleta, G., Truong, T.V.A., Hicheur, H., Pham, Q.C., Berthoz, A. (2010). The Words of the Human Locomotion. In: Kaneko, M., Nakamura, Y. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14743-2_4
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