Prof. Adamczyk’s time on sabbatical in Bangkok is coming to a close, and he will wrap it up by delivering a keynote address on April 28 at a Freedom250 event hosted by Fulbright Thailand at …
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Welcome to new graduate students Sukritta Suksawang and Arrington Polman
This January, the BADGER Lab welcomed two new graduate students in January 2026. Sukritta (Nam) Suksawang joins as a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student, following an M.S. at the University of Pittsburgh and time working with …
Celebrating 2025 MS and PhD Graduates
It was a remarkable summer of milestones at the UW BADGER Lab! In May, Katherine Heidi Fehr, PhD defended her dissertation, titled “Enriching the Evaluation of Mobility Interventions in the Real World”. Heidi did lots …
Prof. Adamczyk on Sabbatical in Bangkok for 2025-26 Academic Year
Prof. Adamczyk is on a long-awaited sabbatical for Academic Year 2025-26. He is located in Bangkok, Thailand, working and studying at Sirindhorn School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, from September 2025 to May 2026. In addition …
Sofya Akhetova publishes paper on real-time-adaptive identification of gait events from IMU signals
Congratulations to past BADGER Lab member Sofya Akhetova for publishing a paper on adaptable real-time detection of initial contact and toe-off events from IMU data in walking. Sofya’s paper, planned and executed while she was …
BADGER Lab team publishes paper describing the Two-Axis ‘Daptable Ankle (TADA)
A wide-ranging team of current and former BADGER Lab members published our long-developing work on the semi-active Two-Axis ‘Daptable Ankle (TADA). This is one of our signature achievements, creating an ankle that can control its …
Congratulations to BADGER Lab MS Graduate Tyler Bennett
Congratulations to S. Tyler Bennett, M.S., who successfully defended his MS Thesis this summer! Tyler was co-advised by Prof. Adamczyk and Prof. Zhenhua Zhu, director of the Digital and Robotic Construction (DARC) lab in UW …
Congratulations to BADGER Lab PhD Graduate Kieran Nichols
Congratulations to Dr. Kieran Nichols, who completed his Ph.D. this summer! Kieran’s Dissertation is titled Development and Application of Semi-Active Prosthetic Foot-Ankle Systems. Kieran pushed our Two-Axis ‘Daptable Ankle (TADA) project ahead with lots of …
Balance Training by wobble board and remote-controlled car: new research characterizes challenge, performance and engagement
Ava Segal, recent PhD graduate from the Colorado School of Mines (with Prof. Adamczyk collaborating), has published two papers on a new approach to balance training, which couples a traditional wobble board with a embedded …
BADGER Lab helps host Workshop on Exoskeletons in Construction
BADGER Lab MS student Tyler Bennett and Director Peter Adamczyk helped host a workshop on understanding issues in technology and application of Exoskeletons and Exosuits in Construction. The workshop is part of an NSF project …
Two papers on using Variable-Stiffness Foot for biomechanical simulation
BADGER Lab Ph.D. Candidate Kieran Nichols and Director Peter Adamczyk are co-authors on two more papers describing novel simulation approaches in biomechanics with prostheses, lead-authored by Michael McGeehan and advisor Mike Hahn at the University …
Kate Konieczka wins a Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship
BME student and BADGER Lab member Kate Konieczka was awarded the prestigious Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship! She will work to develop new ways to analyze ankle mechanics during movement using only wearable inertial sensors and …
UW BADGER Lab hosted Dynamic Walking 2022
UW BADGER Lab hosted a successful conference of Dynamic Walking 2022 from Monday, June 13 to Thursday, June 16th. BADGER Lab members Becca Roembke, Kieran Nichols, Stephanie Hernandez Hernandez, Heidi Fehr, Yisen Wang, and Tyler …
BADGER Lab to host Dynamic Walking 2022
Prof. Adamczyk and the UW BADGER Lab will host Dynamic Walking 2022! This intense conference brings together leading researchers in biomechanics and robotics in an effort to understand, augment, reproduce, and …
February 2022 – New Paper on Wearable Estimates of Muscle-Tendon Power in the Soleus and Gastrocnemius on different slopes
Congratulations to Sara Harper on publication of our second paper on using wearable Tendon Tensiometry for real-world experiments in the muscle-tendon kinetics of locomotion. This paper, done in collaboration between UW BADGER Lab and the …
November 2021 – BADGER Lab looking for undergraduate research assistants in Robotics, Prostheses
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 …
October 2021 – Heidi Fehr wins second place in the Society of Women Engineers Graduate Poster Competition
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’ …
September 2021 – Paper on Ankle Mechanics on ramps and stairs with the Variable-Stiffness Prosthesis
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) …
March 2021 – former BADGER Lab student Jenny Leestma earns NSF Graduate Fellowship
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.
February 2021 – Paper on Modeling the Variable-Stiffness Foot
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 …