About the Authors

Myunghee Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Myunghee Kim, Ye Ding

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

myunghee_kim@g.harvard.edu (MK); walsh@seas.harvard.edu (CJW); scottk@seas.harvard.edu (SK)

Affiliations John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Ye Ding

Contributed equally to this work with: Myunghee Kim, Ye Ding

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Philippe Malcolm

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Department of Biomechanics and Center for Research in Human Movement Variability, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, United States of America

Jozefien Speeckaert

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Christoper J. Siviy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Conor J. Walsh

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

myunghee_kim@g.harvard.edu (MK); walsh@seas.harvard.edu (CJW); scottk@seas.harvard.edu (SK)

Affiliations John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Scott Kuindersma

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

myunghee_kim@g.harvard.edu (MK); walsh@seas.harvard.edu (CJW); scottk@seas.harvard.edu (SK)

Affiliation John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: M.K, Y.D, C.J.W., and S.K are authors on a patent that has been filed with the U.S. Patent Office (PCT/US2017/042286, Controls Optimization for Wearable Systems) describing the algorithms documented in this manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.