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 …
April 10, 2023
BADGER 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, 2022
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 …
July 26, 2022
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 …
July 26, 2022
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 …
July 26, 2022
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 …
June 27, 2022
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 …
April 16, 2022
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 …
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, 2021
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’ …
November 2, 2021
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) …
September 30, 2021
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.
March 24, 2021
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 …
February 21, 2021
January 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 …
January 13, 2021
December 2020 – Congratulations to Jenna Thorp on her successful PhD defense!
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 …
December 9, 2020
November 2020 – Journal Cover paper on In-Game Cutting Kinematics in Ultimate Frisbee
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 …
November 27, 2020
October 2020 – Paper on gait entrainment and muscle response to rhythmic electrical stimulation
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 …
October 30, 2020
September 2020 – New DOD-funded research: Prosthesis with Osseointegrated Bidirectional Neural Interface
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. …
September 26, 2020
September 2020 – BADGER and NMBL Labs launch Phase II STTR on Tendon Tensiometry
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 …
September 26, 2020September 2020 – BADGER Lab student Rebecca Roembke begins NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Rebecca Roembke on beginning her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship this September! Becca was one of eight College of Engineering graduate students (two in Mechanical Engineering) to earn this prestigious fellowship.
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