Kieran Nichols and Becca Roembke publish paper on actuator communication
Congratulations to alumnus Kieran Nichols, PhD and PhD Candidate Rebecca Roembke, successfully published a paper on using CANOpen Over EtherCAT, hosted directly on the popular Raspberry Pi platform, to communicate with two high-performance Elmo Gold …
February 28, 2025
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, 2025
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 …
July 3, 2024
Paper 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, 2024
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 …
June 19, 2024
Paper 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, 2024
Paper on impact-aware foot motion reconstruction
Congratulations to Yisen Wang and Heidi Fehr for publishing a paper on impact-aware motion reconstruction from a foot-mounted IMU. The new method makes a major improvement in trajectory reconstruction on level ground by accounting for …
March 18, 2024
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 …
September 8, 2023
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 …
September 8, 2023
BADGER 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, 2023
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’ …
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