Postural stability when walking and exposed to mediolateral oscillatory motion: Effect of oscillation waveform
Postural stability when walking and exposed to mediolateral oscillatory motion: Effect of oscillation waveform
Postural stability can be threatened by the low-frequency motions in transport that are usually quantified by their root-mean-square (r.m.s.) acceleration. This study investigated how the stability of walking people depends on the waveform of 1- and 2-Hz mediolateral oscillations of the surface on which they walk. Walking on a treadmill, 20 subjects were perturbed by random oscillations of the treadmill with one-third octave bandwidths: different waveforms with the same r.m.s. acceleration and different waveforms with the same peak acceleration. Stability was measured subjectively and objectively by the velocity of the center of pressure in the mediolateral direction. Subjective and objective measures of walking instability increased with increasing r.m.s. acceleration of oscillations having the same peak acceleration. These same measures of instability were also affected by the peak acceleration when the r.m.s. magnitude of the oscillations was constant, especially with 1-Hz oscillations. It is concluded that r.m.s. measures of acceleration are insufficient to predict the postural stability of walking passengers exposed to mediolateral oscillations and that peaks in the oscillations should also be taken into account.
mediolateral surface oscillation, motion waveform, perturbed locomotion, vibration
131-139
Ayık, Hatice Mujde
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Griffin, Michael J.
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1 April 2019
Ayık, Hatice Mujde
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Griffin, Michael J.
24112494-9774-40cb-91b7-5b4afe3c41b8
Ayık, Hatice Mujde and Griffin, Michael J.
(2019)
Postural stability when walking and exposed to mediolateral oscillatory motion: Effect of oscillation waveform.
Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 35 (2), .
(doi:10.1123/jab.2017-0352).
Abstract
Postural stability can be threatened by the low-frequency motions in transport that are usually quantified by their root-mean-square (r.m.s.) acceleration. This study investigated how the stability of walking people depends on the waveform of 1- and 2-Hz mediolateral oscillations of the surface on which they walk. Walking on a treadmill, 20 subjects were perturbed by random oscillations of the treadmill with one-third octave bandwidths: different waveforms with the same r.m.s. acceleration and different waveforms with the same peak acceleration. Stability was measured subjectively and objectively by the velocity of the center of pressure in the mediolateral direction. Subjective and objective measures of walking instability increased with increasing r.m.s. acceleration of oscillations having the same peak acceleration. These same measures of instability were also affected by the peak acceleration when the r.m.s. magnitude of the oscillations was constant, especially with 1-Hz oscillations. It is concluded that r.m.s. measures of acceleration are insufficient to predict the postural stability of walking passengers exposed to mediolateral oscillations and that peaks in the oscillations should also be taken into account.
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14826 HMA-MJG 2019 - Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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e-pub ahead of print date: 30 January 2019
Published date: 1 April 2019
Keywords:
mediolateral surface oscillation, motion waveform, perturbed locomotion, vibration
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/430043
ISSN: 1065-8483
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