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.
Today the two hip motors turned for the first time under direct computer control. I am using Humusoft MF634 cards with Simulink Realtime Desktop.
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.
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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.
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
An article summing up a lot of challenges in a scientific career:
The control objective for bipedal gait is a matter of debate in the biomechanics community. Model driven studies suggested stability in the sense of aiming for returning to a previous steady-state after perturbation. Experiments with birds, the largest population of bipedal animals, in combination with a simulation study suggests that the control objective might be something else. Check out our new article in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
It took a while, but the paper on spring-mass walking with the ATRIAS robot is resubmitted to ‘IEEE Transaction on Robotics’. The new video can be found on the ATRIAS page in this blog.