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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 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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 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 …

        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 …

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 …

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’ …

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) …

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.

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 …

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 …

Jenna Thorp successfully defended her PhD Dissertation, titled Modulation of Gait during Rhythmic Electrical Stimulation. Dr. Thorp’s main research investigated how stimulation to the muscles of the lower leg can change stride period. Her accomplishments …

Congratulations to BADGER Lab alum Paul Slaughter, for publishing his first-of-kind study of in-game cutting maneuvers in female collegiate ultimate frisbee players! This study used lower-body wearable movement sensors during league-sanctioned games at three levels …

BADGER Lab member Jenna Thorp published a study on how human walking entrains to rhythmic electrical stimulation of the medial gastrocnemius muscle unilaterally. Based on past literature showing that the body entrains to align robotic …

The UW BADGER Lab received a new grant from the Department of Defense to further develop the Two-Axis ‘Daptable Ankle (TADA) prosthesis (see Research page) and combine it with prosthesis-embedded sensors and a bidirectional neural interface. …

The BADGER and NMBL labs received a Phase II STTR grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS/NIH) to commercialize a wearable Tendon Tensiometry system, in partnership with leading design …