Abstract
The characteristics of floor reaction forces are investigated using two large force plates in the three phases of human gait, that is, initiation, stopping and turning, The time histories of the point of application and the center of the body mass in gait initiation and stopping are obtained. In gait initiation, the phenomena of inverse fluctuation are noticed not only in the point of application, but in the floor reaction forces as well. It becomes clear experimentally that inverse fluctuations occur when a person initiates walking. The following results are also described: gait stopping is roughly similar to the time-reverse motion of the gait initiation; gait turning is the continuous motion of gait stopping and gait initiation.
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