This project is designed to allow overground experiments for studying human motor adaptation to changing ground stiffness, with eventual applications toward restoring weight bearing symmetry after stroke. To accomplish this, we designed a wearable system to change the stiffness between the foot and the ground during walking or standing. We used 3D printed soft lattice structures as shoe soles to obtain a very low stiffness interface, which we actively control with an embedded pneumatic system.
Publications
Gait adaptation to asymmetric foot-ground compliance applied by robotic footwear
Mark Price, Wouter Hoogkamer, Meghan E Huber
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 34, 2026, pp. 2660 - 2668
Mark Price*, Banu Abdikadirova*, Wouter Hoogkamer, Meghan E Huber
47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2025
Adjustable Compliance Footwear Technology to Investigate Gait Adaptation
Mark Price, Calder Robbins, Sarah Szemethy, Banu Abdikadirova, Gina Olson, Wouter Hoogkamer, Meghan E Huber
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 10(12), 2025, pp. 13352 - 13358