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Year: 2021

November 2021 – BADGER Lab looking for undergraduate research assistants in Robotics, Prostheses

Posted on November 11, 2021

The BADGER Lab is looking to add some undergraduate researchers to help with projects in Prosthetics and in Robotic Mobility. See the UW-Madison page on Handshake and search for “Adamczyk” or “BADGER Lab” to see …

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October 2021 – Heidi Fehr wins second place in the Society of Women Engineers Graduate Poster Competition

Posted on November 2, 2021

Congratulations to Katherine Heidi Fehr, current PhD student in the BADGER Lab, on being selected as a finalist and winning second place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition at We21, the Society of Women Engineers’ …

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September 2021 – Paper on Ankle Mechanics on ramps and stairs with the Variable-Stiffness Prosthesis

Posted on September 30, 2021

Congratulations to Heidi Fehr and Jenny Leestma (current and former BADGER Lab members) on publication of a paper on characterizing the Dynamic Mean Ankle Moment Arm (DMAMA) in persons using the Variable-Stiffness Foot prosthesis (VSF) …

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March 2021 – former BADGER Lab student Jenny Leestma earns NSF Graduate Fellowship

Posted on March 24, 2021

Congratulations to Jenny Leestma, former BADGER Lab researcher and UW Biomedical Engineering graduate, on being awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship. Jenny is now studying at Georgia Tech’s EPIC Lab.

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February 2021 – Paper on Modeling the Variable-Stiffness Foot

Posted on February 21, 2021

Congratulations to Mike McGeehan at the University of Oregon for first-authoring a paper on a mechanical model of the Variable-Stiffness Foot. This model runs in MATLAB SimScape Multibody, and aims to incorporate variable-stiffness mechanics into …

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January 2021 – Paper on wearable movement sensors, terrain, foot movement and energy expenditure

Posted on January 13, 2021

Prof. Adamczyk and others published a study using wearable sensors to measure foot movement and predict energy expenditure on a variety of terrains. This study used foot-mounted inertial measurement units, GPS tracking and a wearable …

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