On December 17th I will give a presentation about my current research as part of the mid-term evaluation for my postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation). It will be live from 1:30pm.
EcoWalk gets started
The German Research Foundation granted a 3-year project for a collaboration with the Dynamic Locomotion Group at MPI-IS in Stuttgart. The hiring is almost completed, updates to follow soon.
Reviewer of the Year
I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago informing me that I have been awarded the “Reviewer of the Year” title of the IOP journal “Bioinspiration & Biomimetics” “in recognition of the high quality and timeliness of your reviews during the year.” I highly appreciate this recognition for five reviews throughout 2018.
Video of my talk at the 2019 internal chair conference
JenaFox II – first signs of “life”
Today the two hip motors turned for the first time under direct computer control. I am using Humusoft MF634 cards with Simulink Realtime Desktop.
New course “Applied Biorobotics”
I will be offering a new course on “Applied Biorobotics” next term at TU Munich. Check out the intro video.
More information and updates on the course website.
Press release out!
https://plus.google.com/102661599634485362064/posts/i9LDJ6XuiL9
Article out
Finally, after first submitting our article to IEEE Transactions on Robotics on December, 13th 2013, after 3 reviews and one change in paper format our new article “Exciting engineered passive dynamics in a bipedal robot” is finally online and will be published in the upcoming issue.
ATRIAS also recently pushed the record for fast walking to 2.1m/s (7.6km/h) – great work at the DRL.
Ankle prostheses and orthoses in academia
Building ankle prostheses and orthoses for patients who lost their lower limb or are missing gait functions due to neurological or muscular deficits has taken a large amount of research. This will be a brief overview over existing devices with short descriptions of principle and function. This list is not complete and will be updated. Continue reading
Science feature
An article summing up a lot of challenges in a scientific career: