Gaits are default patterns of motion in legged animals that occur without conscious control. There are two main gaits for bipeds - hopping with both legs moving together, and walking with alternating left and right legs. The most common quadrupedal gaits are walking with a front left-back right, front right-back left pattern; pacing with the two left legs then two right legs hitting the ground; and trotting with diagonal pairs of front left-back right then front right-back left hitting the ground together. Mathematical techniques can be used to analyze and classify the rhythmic patterns found in nature's gaits.
Gaits are default patterns of motion in legged animals that occur without conscious control. There are two main gaits for bipeds - hopping with both legs moving together, and walking with alternating left and right legs. The most common quadrupedal gaits are walking with a front left-back right, front right-back left pattern; pacing with the two left legs then two right legs hitting the ground; and trotting with diagonal pairs of front left-back right then front right-back left hitting the ground together. Mathematical techniques can be used to analyze and classify the rhythmic patterns found in nature's gaits.
Gaits are default patterns of motion in legged animals that occur without conscious control. There are two main gaits for bipeds - hopping with both legs moving together, and walking with alternating left and right legs. The most common quadrupedal gaits are walking with a front left-back right, front right-back left pattern; pacing with the two left legs then two right legs hitting the ground; and trotting with diagonal pairs of front left-back right then front right-back left hitting the ground together. Mathematical techniques can be used to analyze and classify the rhythmic patterns found in nature's gaits.
GAITS Gaits are default patterns of motion in legged animals, that occur when conscious control is not operating
The mathematics of gaits is an
unusual application of modern mathematical techniques that at first sight seems totally unrelated. TWO-LEGGED CREATURES OR BIPED A biped has two commonly used gaits:
HOPPING motion: both legs
move together.
The human walk:
Left, right, left, right… 7 Most Common Quadrupedal Gaits
1. Walk: involves a more complex
but equally rhythmic pattern: front left, back right, front right, back left, then repeat.
2. Pace : links the movements
fore and aft, the two left legs hit the ground, then the two right 3. Trot: the legs are in effect linked in diagonal pairs. First the front left and back right hit the ground together, then the front right and back left.
4. Rotary gallop: the front legs hit the
ground almost together, but with the right very slightly later than the left; then the back legs hit the ground almost together, but this time with the left very slightly later than the right. Nature's rhythms are often linked to symmetry, and that the patterns that occur can be classified mathematically…