UNC Colleagues publish a paper on DMAMA in aging
Congratulations and thanks to Aubrey Gray and Prof. Jason Franz of the UNC Applied Biomechanics Lab for working with Prof. Adamczyk to publish a paper on Dynamic Mean Ankle Moment Arm in the journal Gait …
January 6, 2025Paper on estimating foot clearance with wearable sensors
BADGER Lab members Heidi Fehr, Dr. Jenny Bartloff, and Yisen Wang published an article in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal under the guidance of Prof. Adamczyk. This article discusses a novel method to determine whole-foot minimum …
June 19, 2024Paper on changes in DMAMA in Unimpaired Walking Across Speeds, Ramps, and Stairs
BADGER Lab member Heidi Fehr and Prof. Adamczyk collaborated with the Major Lab at Northwestern to publish a paper seeking to understand changes in Dynamic Mean Ankle Moment Arm (DMAMA) in unimpaired individuals as they …
April 25, 2024Congratulations 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 …
September 8, 2023Congratulations 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 …
September 8, 2023BADGER and NMBL Labs publish opinion paper on Wearable Sensing in Ecological Contexts
BADGER Lab members teamed up with UW NMBL colleagues to propose a vision for how and why to use wearable sensors to study human movement in ecological contexts outside the lab. The invited paper is …
July 28, 2023Balance 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 …
April 10, 2023BADGER Lab shares research on evaluating prosthetic feet using real-world data at MHSRS 2022
BADGERLab members Yisen Wang and Heidi Fehr will present their research at the 2022 MHSRS Conference. View the poster (click to enlarge): Click below to view animation of a single stride showing whole-foot ground clearance: …
August 31, 2022BADGER 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 …
July 26, 2022Two 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 …
July 26, 2022Kate 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 …
July 26, 2022UW 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 …
June 27, 2022BADGER 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 …
April 16, 2022February 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 …
February 18, 2022November 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 …
November 11, 2021October 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’ …
November 2, 2021September 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) …
September 30, 2021March 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.
March 24, 2021February 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 …
February 21, 2021January 2021 – Paper on wearable movement sensors, terrain, foot movement and energy expenditure
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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