“…This paper focuses on the inverse optimal control problem associated with the goal-oriented human locomotion. In the approach initiated in [2][3][4], goal-oriented human locomotion is 1072-3374/**/****-0001 c 20** Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. understood as the motion in the 3-D space of both its position (x, y) and its orientation θ of a person walking from an initial point (x 0 , y 0 , θ 0 ) to a final point (x 1 , y 1 , θ 1 ) (see Figure 1). We take advantage here of the analysis carried out in a previous work [10] (see also [6]) in modeling the human locomotion by means of optimal control problems.…”