Shoma Kudo, Student in the Graduate School of Sport and Health Science, published a research paper in Gait & Posture, co-authored with Professor. Akinori Nagano and Dr. Takahiko Sato at the College of Sport and Health Science, and Dr. Masahiro Fujimoto at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

The importance of the trunk has been well recognized to contribute considerably to achieving and controlling human locomotion, such as walking and running, serving as a linking segment between the lower and upper limbs. This paper determined the optimal rigid-body model of the trunk for the analysis of its movement during walking and running. The findings of this study would be useful to analyze complex movements of the trunk during human locomotion.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966636220300709

Kudo S., Fujimoto M., Sato T., and Nagano A., (2020). Determination of the optimal number of linked rigid-bodies of the trunk during walking and running based on Akaike’s information criterion. Gait & Posture, In Press.