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The Smooth Transition From Many-Legged to Bipedal Locomotion-Gradual Leg Force Reduction and its Impact on Total Ground Reaction Forces, Body Dynamics and Gait Transitions

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.769684

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ground reaction forces; duty factor; phase shift; body dynamics; leg force interference

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  1. DFG (German Research Foundation) [WE4664/5-1]

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Most terrestrial animals move with a specific number of legs for propulsion, which varies between species. Understanding the reasons for these differences is crucial for understanding the evolution of multiple-leg locomotor systems and the development of robots. Some species also change the number of legs they use for propulsion when speeding up, but the reasons for this behavior remain unclear.
Most terrestrial animals move with a specific number of propulsive legs, which differs between clades. The reasons for these differences are often unknown and rarely queried, despite the underlying mechanisms being indispensable for understanding the evolution of multilegged locomotor systems in the animal kingdom and the development of swiftly moving robots. Moreover, when speeding up, a range of species change their number of propulsive legs. The reasons for this behaviour have proven equally elusive. In animals and robots, the number of propulsive legs also has a decisive impact on the movement dynamics of the centre of mass. Here, I use the leg force interference model to elucidate these issues by introducing gradually declining ground reaction forces in locomotor apparatuses with varying numbers of leg pairs in a first numeric approach dealing with these measures' impact on locomotion dynamics. The effects caused by the examined changes in ground reaction forces and timing thereof follow a continuum. However, the transition from quadrupedal to a bipedal locomotor system deviates from those between multilegged systems with different numbers of leg pairs. Only in quadrupeds do reduced ground reaction forces beneath one leg pair result in increased reliability of vertical body oscillations and therefore increased energy efficiency and dynamic stability of locomotion.

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