Movement Lab - Manoj Srinivasan
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We are interested in understanding the movement of things: humans, other animals, and machines.
Some central scientific questions are: Why do animals move the way they do? And how do they do it so well? We are interested in obtaining a simple and tractable, yet complete, theory of legged locomotion and sensorimotor control in humans and other animals -- a theory that will reliably predict how an animal will act in a novel situation (say, humans on the moon) and how the animal will respond to perturbations (say, stepping on a banana peel). We use a mixture of mathematics, modeling, computation, and experiments.
The Movement Lab is located within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University and is led by Manoj Srinivasan.
Please click on the links above or below to learn more about what we do.
Here is a recent research article:
Manoj Srinivasan. Fifteen observations on the structure of energy minimizing gaits in many simple biped models. J. Royal Society Interface, 2010. Journal link
Press: Our research has been featured in a few popular science and news media, including the National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, National Public Radio, New Scientist, etc. Please see the Press/Media page for videos, audio, and articles about our work. But please see our papers if you want the full story.
Joining the Lab: Please write to Manoj Srinivasan with your research interests, background, and a CV -- whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student at Ohio State University.