On the kinematics of the gait with jumping stilts.

This work deals with the kinematic analysis of the gait cycle of a subject fitted with jumping stilts. A motion capture analysis was conducted by recording the trajectory of the subject's free-flying hoof during a complete gait cycle. A six-degrees of freedom serial chain was used to simulate the subject's legs kinematic on the sagittal plane. The positions and velocities of the subject's free-flying hoof obtained from the photo-frames of the video and from the kinematic model was used to validate the model.