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Year: 2019

November 2019 – DMAMA paper describes ankle control in walking and running

Posted on November 28, 2019

A paper introducing a new metric of ankle control, the Dynamic Mean Ankle Moment Arm (DMAMA) was accepted for publication in the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. This paper investigates how ankle control differs in …

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October 2019 – Prof. Adamczyk named Charles Ringrose Assistant Professor in UW-Madison College of Engineering

Posted on November 28, 2019

Prof. Adamczyk has been named Charles Ringrose Assistant Professor in the UW-Madison College of Engineering, for a three-year appointment effective January 1, 2020. This named Assistant Professorship is a great honor that will help the …

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September 2019 – Welcome new BADGER Lab members Heidi Fehr and Yisen Wang

Posted on November 28, 2019

The BADGER Lab welcomes new members Heidi Fehr and Yisen Wang! Both Heidi and Yisen have joined the team to study the effects of prosthetic foot features on everyday movement using wearable sensors.  

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August 2019 – Paul Slaughter wins ASB Undergraduate Poster Competition

Posted on August 27, 2019

Congratulations to Paul Slaughter, who won the ASB Undergraduate Poster Competition at ASB/ISB 2019 in Calgary! Paul’s work investigated how different ligaments in the necks of dogs influence the stiffness and mobility of the intervertebral …

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August 2019 – The BADGERs take Calgary!

Posted on July 28, 2019

BADGER Lab students and alumni will make quite a showing at the International Society of Biomechanics/American Society of Biomechanics joint meeting, July 31-Aug 4, 2019 in Calgary, Alberta. The BADGER Lab has 6 Posters and …

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July 2019 – Prof. Adamczyk receives DOD grant to study prosthetics and orthotics “in the real world”

Posted on July 12, 2019

Prof. Adamczyk received a grant from the US Department of Defense (W81XWH-19-2-0024) to study how different prosthetic feet and different orthotic solutions affect real-world movement. The project will deploy advanced suites of wearable movement sensors …

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June 2019 – Congratulations to M.S. grad Mike Greene

Posted on June 30, 2019

Michael Greene completed his M.S. degree by developing and controlling the BADGER Lab’s Two-Axis ‘Daptable Ankle. This prosthesis can control its ankle angle in both plantarflexion/dorsiflexion and inversion/eversion. Mike did lots of great work to …

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June 2019 – Weixin Wang publishes a paper evaluating the Bingham Filter for tracking orientation in inertial sensors

Posted on June 15, 2019

BADGER Lab graduate Weixin Wang, M.S., published a paper on the theoretical and practical benefits of the Bingham Filter in inertial orientation sensing. The Bingham Filter has a more accurate statistical propagation of uncertainty that …

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April 2019 – M.S. grad Weixin Wang publishes paper on real-world movement analysis with wearable sensors

Posted on April 30, 2019

BADGER Lab grad Weixin Wang, M.S. published a paper on new methods to make sense of real-world data collected with wearable sensors. The key to the new method is to track a person’s location using …

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January 2019 – Congratulations to graduate Jenny Leestma, B.S.

Posted on January 30, 2019

Jenny Leestma completed her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, with research in the BADGER Lab on variable-stiffness prostheses and the novel metric of ankle function, DMAMA (Dynamic Mean Ankle Moment Arm). Jenny is off to an …

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January 2019 – Congratulations to graduate Weixin Wang, M.S.

Posted on January 10, 2019

Weixin Wang completed his M.S. degree on techniques for making sense of movement data from wearable sensors. He has two papers in progress on the topic. Weixin will continue studying for a PhD at George …

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