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
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 …
April 2019 – M.S. grad Weixin Wang publishes paper on real-world movement analysis with wearable sensors
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 …
January 2019 – Congratulations to graduate Jenny Leestma, B.S.
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 …
January 2019 – Congratulations to graduate Weixin Wang, M.S.
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 …
December 2018 – Jenna Thorp publishes review of wearable sensors for Parkinson’s Disease
Jenna Thorp published an review of the state of art in wearable movement sensors and processing algorithms for detecting symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The paper appears in Frontiers in Neurology: Monitoring Motor Symptoms During Activities …
October 2018 – Evan Glanzer publishes paper on the Variable-Stiffness Foot
BADGER Lab grad Evan Glanzer, M.S. ’18 published a paper on the design, control and validation of a prosthetic foot with real-time control of its forefoot stiffness (Stub and Abstract). This design is part of …
September 2018 – Profs. Adamczyk, Zinn and Gruben receive NSF National Robotics Initiative grant for high-powered haptic rehabilitation robotics
Prof. Adamczyk received a National Science Foundation National Robotics Initiative 2.0 grant with Prof. Mike Zinn (REACH Lab) and Prof. Kreg Gruben (NCL) to develop high-powered hybrid actuators and control systems to use them for …
September 2018 – Adamczyk and Thelen receive NIH STTR for Wearable Tendon Tensiometry
Prof. Adamczyk received an NIH STTR Phase I grant to develop a wearable system for measuring the tension in superficial tendons non-invasively during movement. The system will be developed in collaboration with Prof. Darryl Thelen …
August 2018 – Jenny Leestma wins for EMG pattern recognition poster
Jenny received 1st place at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab intern poster competition at the for her work using virtual reality to investigate EMG pattern recognition control for upper limb prostheses. Nice work!
June 2018 – Congrats to BADGER grad Evan Glanzer, M.S.
Congratulations to Evan Glanzer for successfully defending his thesis and completing his Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. The lab will miss you and best of luck at your new job at Milwaukee Tool!
May 2018 – Congratulations to BADGER Lab grad Jason Dekarske
Congratulations to Jason Dekarske on graduating with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering! We can’t wait to see all that he’ll accomplish while pursuing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UC-Davis while working in the RASCAL …
May 2018 – Congratulations to BADGER Lab Grad Hannah Mrazsko
Congratulations to Hannah Mrazsko on graduating with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering! We’re happy to be keeping Hannah around for another year while she completes her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering.
April 2018 – BME design award for BADGER Lab students
Jason and Hannah’s Capstone group received the Tong Biomedical Engineering Design Award Honorable Mention for their work on a prosthetic ankle with biomimetic motion for weight lifting. Congratulations!
April 2018 – Intro to Robotics featured in UW Engineering News
Peter was featured in a UW-Madison College of Engineering article regarding his reinvention of the Introduction to Robotics course! Take a look at the article and video here.
March 2018 – Human-Centered Robotics at UW College of Engineering
Peter and fellow biomechanics faculty member, Michael Zinn, were recently featured in an article about the development of human-centered robots. Read the UW-Madison College of Engineering article here.
November 2017 – Robohub podcast on Semi-active Prostheses
Peter was recently interviewed for a Robohub podcast about his work on semi-active foot and ankle prostheses. Listen to the podcast here!