Adjustable Compliance Footwear Technology (AcFT) - design preprint available
Our first paper detailing the design of new adjustable compliance footwear is live on bioRxiv! This project has been a couple years in the making, and we finally have a prototype version ready to show and perform locomotion studies with. This is actual...
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Paper published: Design and Characterization of the AdjuSST: An Adjustable Surface Stiffness Treadmill
The design paper for our new Adjustable Surface Stiffness Treadmill (AdjuSST) is live in early access in the IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics on IEEE Xplore! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10816726
Last year's milestones
It's been a while since I updated this page, so here's a summary of what I've been doing in 2024. 5 new papers (3 are preprints): Gait adaptation to asymmetric hip stiffness applied by a robotic exoskeleton - Published in IEEE TNSRE, we present our f...
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I presented at ISB in Fukuoka, Japan
I presented our latest results from our asymmetry adaptation study using our robotic hip exoskeleton at the International Society of Biomechanics meeting in Fukuoka, Japan. It was a pleasure to catch up with old friends and meet new colleagues! Thank y...
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Split belt treadmill simulations published in the Journal of Neurophysiology
My simulation study using a musculoskeletal model to explore what drives gait adaptation on a split belt treadmill was just published in the Journal of Neurophysiology. Please take a look at the link below or check out our preprint if you're interested. (Link)
I attended the NSF DARE Conference in LA as a selected Fellow
I attended the NSF DARE Conference: Transformative Opportunities for Modeling in Neurorehabilitation in Los Angeles as one of ten selected Fellows. This was a great meeting between clinicians, engineers, and modelers to try and break down the barriers ...
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R21 Trailblazer awarded
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the NIH has awarded the collaborative team between Meghan Huber, Wouter Hoogkamer, and myself a 3-year, $612.7K R21 Trailblazer grant to support my variable stiffness footwear p... (Link)
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