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Congratulations to Santiago! His paper titled Novel Velocity Estimation for Symmetric and Asymmetric Self-Paced Treadmill Training was just accepted in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.  The techniques developed in this paper will be used to study self-selected walking speed … Continue reading →

Santiago and Owen had abstracts accepted to the American Society of Biomechanics 2020 conference (virtual) hosted by Georgia Tech. The virtual conference has been made free for students so there’s never been a better time to grab a student membership … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Owen on winning a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation.  The NSF GRFP is highly competitive and prestigious program for funding PhDs. He will take his fellowship to Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2020 in the Robotics … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Owen Pearl (Master’s Thesis Candidate in Mechanical Engineering) for a successful proposal.  We are all looking forward to the results of his study on improving biomechanical fidelity of musculoskeletal models for overweight and obese individuals.

Closing out the semester with our first RISE lab photo!

Congratulations to Dr. Jacobs on the new paper “Feasibility of Muscle Synergy Outcomes in Clinics, Robotics, and Sports: A Systematic Review” in the Journal of Applied Bionics and Biomechanics Taborri, J., Agostini, V., Artemiadis, P. K., Ghislieri, M., Jacobs, D. … Continue reading →

Congratulations, Dr. Jacobs on the new article. Motor modules during adaptation to walking in a powered ankle exoskeleton, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2018 15:2 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-017-0343-x Modules of muscle recruitment can be extracted from electromyography (EMG) during motions, such as … Continue reading →

Santiago Canete is joining the RISE lab. Santiago was born in Madrid, Spain. He earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Temple University in 2017. He is especially interested in control systems and robotics. As an undergraduate, he was a … Continue reading →

Hello World. Welcome to the Robotics in Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (RISE) Lab.