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October 2024
Arash Arami gave an invited talk at SpasticityX, Houston TX, US about the new ways of modeling and simulating spasticity.
Publication Update, September 2024
See our new paper on a quantitative metric (interaction portrait) for human-exoskeleton physical interaction and co-adaptation published in Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
BioRob 2024
Mo Shushtari attended BioRob 2024 in Heidelberg Germany and presented his work on Human-Exoskeleton Disagreement Resolution Through Interaction Torque Minimization.
September 2024
Julie Miller joined the lab as a new co-op student.
Publication update, July 2024
See our new paper on application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in control of intermittent pneumatic compression for maximizing lower limb blood flow, published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
May 2024
Mohammad (Mo) Shushtari successfully defended his PhD thesis.
Congratulation Dr. Mo :)
May 2024
Erfan Azqadan successfully defended his PhD thesis.
Congratulation Dr. Erfan :)
Publication update, May 2024
Lyndon Tang presented his work on IMU-based gait phase estimation at 31st Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, International Conference.
April 2024
Sahand Ajami has successfully defended his Master's thesis. Congratulation Sahand :)
March 2024
A New Successful NSERC Discovery
Thanks NSERC for continuous support of our research.
Publication update, January 2024
Our new paper on Multi-resolution Neural Nets for Accurate IMU-based Estimation of Gait Phase is published in Sensors.
January 2024
Thea Yu and Alireza Chalik joined the Lab as new Master's students.
Publication update, December 2023
Accurate prediction of the microstructure images of a specimen before manufacturing, see our new paper in Acta Materialia using augmented Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.
Links to the Codes and real-time generation of images can be found here.
Publication update, December 2023
2 papers got accepted for podium presentation at ICRA 2024.
Publication update, November 2023
See our new paper Feedforward Control of Lower Limb Exoskeletons: Which Torque Profile Should We Use? published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
October 2023
Tharindu Kodippili successfully defended his PhD.
Congratulations, Dr. Tharindu!
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Publication update: Multi-objective Optimization of a Cast-preform Shape for a Magnesium Alloy Forging Application published in the Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
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Iara Santelices successfully defended her Master's thesis.
Congratulations, Iara!
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Iara Santelices presented her work in RL-based control of calf compression for improving blood velocity at BSN 2023.
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Iara Santelices gave a talk about her findings on blood velocity estimation during BSN 2023.
Her paper got shortlisted for the best paper award of the conference.
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September 2023
Ehsan Tahvilian joined the lab as a new PhD student. Lyndon Tang and Rachel Du joined the lab as new Master's students.
Publication update, August 2023
Our work on A data-driven prediction of material hardness in cast-forging process of magnesium alloys has been recently
published in Materials Today Communications.
Publication update, July 2023
Our recently published work on Real-time Estimation of Movement Dynamics (during a range of walking conditions) appeared among the featured articles of IEEE TBME.
Publication update, June 2023
Our paper on How the cost function central nervous system minimizes for walking varies with walking speed is accepted in IEEE RA-Letters. This is an inverse optimal control study.
Our paper on Human-exoskeleton interaction torque estimation is published in journal of Robotics.
May 2023
Julia Foellmer and Mo Shushtari presented their work on exoskeleton feedforward controller in ICAIR 2023.
May 2023
Bhavya Goswami Joined the lab as a new Master's student.. Bhavya is working on lower limb exoskeleton and is co-supervised by Prof. J. McPhee.
March 2023
Two of our FYDP teams Phanes and TrainPro are finalist for Norman Esch competition Award.
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March 2023
Julia Foellmer presented a poster on exoskeleton controller evaluation in Waterloo Robotics Day.
Sahand Ajami presented a poster on novel control development on Panda Robotic Arm in Waterloo Robotics Day.
February 2023
A news piece about our Alumni Milad Nazarahari and role of AMTD fellowship in broadeningadvancing rehabilitation robotics research .
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Publication update
February 2023
Our new collaborative work on accuracy of social science's forecast of social changes got published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Link to the paper can be found here.
Publication update
February 2023
Our new robust joint torque estimator method has been published in IEEE Trans. of Biomedical Engineering.
Link to the paper can be found here.
January 2023
A big Congratulation to Dr. Milad Nazarahari for starting his new role as Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta.
Publication update
September 2022
Our new robust gait phase estimator method has been published in IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
Link to the paper can be found here.
Publication update
Our new work on cuffless blood pressure estimation during moderate and high intensity activity has been accepted in IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics.
Link to the paper can be found here.
Publication update
Our new efficient Inverse Optimal Control method has been published in IEEE Trans. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
Link to the paper can be found here.
Link to the animation.
August 2022
An interview with Arash Arami on Waterloo news about the motor control of lower limbs and hoverboard
News Link here!!
YouTube link here.
our paper link
July 2022
Congratulation Rezvan Nasiri and Hannah Dinovitzer on winning one of
the best poster awards
of RehabWeek 2022!!
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Mohammad Shushtari presented our work on robust and accurate gait phase estimation in RehabWeek 2022.
Twitter link.
June 2022
Congratulation our FYDP team PHANES to got into the final round (one of five finalists) of Demo day challenge by Praxis-Ideation Clinic!!
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A new funding was secured which enables
us to perform exciting research on upper limbs, a collaborative work between our lab and Kinesiology Department at the University of Waterloo.
More updates to come!
May 2022
Our paper on estimator fusion for cuffless blood pressure estimation and an uncertainty measure got accepted in Nature Publishing Scientific Reports!
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Nirosh Manohara joined the lab as a new co-op student.
Welcome to the lab, Nirosh!
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Nirosh Manohara received the NSERC USRA scholarship.
Congratulation, Nirosh!
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Jai Parajapati joined the lab as a new URA.
Welcome to the lab, Jai!
April 2022
Two papers got accepted to be presented at RehabWeek 2022 in IEEE International Conference in Rehabilitation Robotics, to be held 25-29 July 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
March 2022
Cederick Landry obtained NSERC PDF scholarship.
Congratulation Cederick! and best of luck at the University of Pittsburgh!
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Iara Santelices obtained NSERC CGS-M scholarship.
Congratulation Iara!
Publication update
Do you know how we learn to ride a #hoverboard? Which balance #motor_control strategies we use more?
See our new paper* published in Scientific Reports trying to answer those questions:
https://rdcu.be/cI6RW
Twitter link: https://lnkd.in/efaGaRHE
* a collaboration btw University of Waterloo, Imperial College London and NTT Communication Science Laboratories
January 2022
Publication update
Our paper titled Data-driven Prediction of Forging Outcome: Effect of Preform Shape on Plastic Strain in a Magnesium Alloy Forging got accepted in the journal of Materials Today Communications.
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Three URAs joined our lab to work on projects ranged from exoskeleton control to investigating the neural sensory fusion
for human movement control.
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Two courses are given this term by our PI: A technical elective course, ME 547 Robot Manipulators: Kinematics, Dynamics and Control and a graduate course, ME 780 Human Movement Neuromechanics.
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Sahand Ajami joined the lab as an MASc student.
December 2021
Cederick Landry successfully defended his PhD with distinction. Cederick doctoral thesis was on Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring: Estimation of the Waveform and its Prediction Interval.
Congrats Dr. Landry!
Cederick is joining Mukkamala' Lab at Pittsburgh for his Postdoctoral research.
November 2021
Arash Arami has been selected as the chair of NSERC Scholarship and Fellowships committee on Computing Sciences.
Septmber 2021
Milad Nazarahari joined our lab as a new PDF to work on upper limb neurorehabilitation.
Publication update
Our new paper on Online Reference Trajectory Adaptation: A Personalized Control Strategy for Lower Limb Exoskeletons got accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
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Rezvan Nasiri presented the novel controller Virtual Energy Regulator in IEEE IROS 2021.
Link to the video.
August 2021
Our paper on Accurate Blood Pressure Estimation during Activities of Daily Living: A Wearable Cuffless Solution is selected as a Featured Article in IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics.
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Milad Nazarahari featured in the UW news on his project related to stroke robotic rehabilitation (link).
July 2021
Publication update
Our paper, Virtual Energy Regulator: A Time-Independent Solution for Control of
Lower Limb Exoskeletons got accepted in journal of IEEE Robotics and Automation
Letters, also accepted to be presented in IEEE IROS 2021. Early access link
Publication update
Our paper, An Adaptive Assistance Controller to Optimize the Exoskeleton Contribution in Rehabilitation, got published in journal of Robotics. Paper link
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Cederick Landry presented our work on Estimation Fusion for Cuffless Blood Pressure Prediction at IEEE Body Sensors Networks (BSN) 2021.
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Yesung Cha successfully obtained his MASc and completed his thesis on Spasticity Modeling at Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab.
Congrats Yesung!!
June 2021
Arash Arami gave a keynote talk at Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress (CSME 2021) on June 30, on Modeling and Simulation of Neuromuscular Control of Walking
More details here
Publication update
A preprint of our paper on Balance Strategy in Hoverboard Control is now available at Research Square: Link
Publication update
A preprint of our paper on Online Reference Trajectory Adaptation: A Personalized Control Strategy for Lower Limb Exoskeletons is now available: Link
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Yesung Cha has defended his MSc Thesis Seminar on Modeling and Simulation of Lower Limb Spasticity
Congratulation Yesung!!
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Sola Weng presented his work on natural walking with deep RL agent in ICRA 2021.
May 2021
Iara Santelices received Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). Congratulation Iara!!
April 2021
Mohammad Shushtari has successfully defended his PhD comprehensive exam.
Congratulation Mohammad!!
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A Big Congratulation to our undergraduate team Bless your sole for winning the Esch Pitch Competition, Sedra People Choice Award and MME capstone Medical Award!
Bravo team Bless Your Sole !!
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March 2021
Sola Weng won the first prize in UWaterloo MME Graduate Symposium (link), on his presentation on use of deep reinforcement learning in studying human gait neuromechanics. Congratulation Sola!!
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Two papers got accepted in Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress (CSME 2021) on below topics:
i) Functional Electrical Stimulation based Joint Position Control
ii) A Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Neuromuscular Control of Walking
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Two CBB Seed grants were obtained in two separate collaborations with Digital Industrial Ergonomics & Shoulder Evaluation Lab.
and Haptic Computing Lab.
February 2021
Publication update
Our paper titled Natural Walking With Musculoskeletal Models Using Deep Reinforcement Learning got accepted in the journal of IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters. link can be found here.
February 2021
Arash Arami gave a talk titled Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics, in Robotics & AI Research Workshop, February 24th at University of Waterloo (Virtual).
January 2021
Publication update
Our paper on Accurate Blood Pressure Estimation during Activities of Daily Living: A Wearable Cuffless Solution got accepted in IEEE Journal of Biomedical Health Informatics (JBHI).
Publication update
We also released a dataset, Wearable Physiological and Blood Pressure Measurements During Activities of Daily Living, on IEEE dataport (link).
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Iara Santelices joined the lab as an MASc student.
December 2020
Arash Arami gave an invited talk/webinar on Neuromechanical Modeling of the Lower Limbs in Healthy People and Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury at Sharif University of Technology.
Publication update
Our abstract on AI-driven manufacturing got accepted 12th InternationalConference on Magnesium Alloys and their Applications (Mg 2021).
November 2020
New agreement was finalized between our lab and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute for data sharing for spasticity research.
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October 2020
Tharindu Abesin Kodippili has successfully defended his PhD comprehensive exam.
Congratulation Tharindu!!
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Arash Arami has been appointed to NSERC Selection Committee for scholarship evaluations.
September 2020
Publication update
Our paper on Quantitative Modeling of Spasticity for Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation was published in journal of Sensors.
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Hannah Dinovitzer joined the lab as an MASc student.
August 2020
Publication update
Our paper on joint impedance identification during walking was twitted by IEEE TNSRE (Twitter link).
July 2020
Cederick Landry presented the work on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living in EMBC 2020.
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Lucy Liu joined the lab as a co-op student.
June 2020
Publication update
Our paper titled Clustering-based approach to identify joint impedance during walking was accepted in IEEE TNSRE (early access link).
Publication update
Our paper titled Cable-driven robotic interface for lower limb neuromechanics identification was accepted in IEEE TBME (early access link).
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We participated in a COVID-19 forecasting tournament at the UW.
May 2020
Julia Goyal obtained the Prestigious
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D).
Congratulation Julia!!
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Publication update
Our paper on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living is accepted in EMBC 2020.
March 2020
In a collaboration with the Structural Biomechanics Lab we secured CBB fund to investigate orthopedic implant loosening.
February 2020
Cederick Landry won the first place award in 3MT (3-minute thesis) competition (Twitter link)
Publication update
2 papers got accepted in CSME 2020.
January 2020
Publication update
Our paper on predictive dynamical modeling of blood pressure waveform was published in IEEE Sensors Journal (link).
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Jiacheng (Sola) Weng joined the lab as a new MASc student.
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December 2019
Publication update
An article about our new gait freezing prediction algorithm was published in CSME Bulletin, Fall 2019, page 17 (Bulletin link, article link).
October 2019
Publication update
Our paper (collaboration with EPFL) on Shoulder robotic simulator is now available online in ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (link).
Publication update
Our paper on Blood Pressure Waveform Estimation was published in IEEE EMBC 2019 Proceedings (link).
September 2019
Publication update
Our paper on Prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease was published in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, (link).
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Mohammad Shushtari joined the Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab as a new PhD student.
August 2019
Publication update
Our journal paper got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, on the topic of prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease (early access).
Publication update
Our paper got published in the proceedings of IEEE ICORR 2019, Toronto, on the effect of visual information on bimanual motor tasks.
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Arash Arami presented the work on Detection of Freezing of Gait in Parkinson’s disease: an investigation on the role of different feature families in ISB 2019, Calgary.
July 2019
Publication update
Our Journal paper about a robotic glenohumeral simulator got accepted in Journal of Biomechanical Engineering.
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Cederick Landry presented his work on Estimation of the Blood Pressure Waveform using Electrocardiography at EMBS 2019, Berlin.
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Congratulation team OKO haptics: Udayan Sarin, Curtis Lambert, Jessie Dhillon and Hernando Castano for winning the Baylis Medical Award.
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June 2019
Congratulation Cederick Landry and teammates for winning the first place award in CBB Bio-Hackathon 2019.
May 2019
Appearance in Waterloo Research News:
Arash Arami received the prestigious New Frontiers in Research Fund.
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Arash Arami gave a talk about personalized assistive robotics at Toronto Rehab Institute as a part of Jousse Lecture Series.
March 2019
Team Akomodi won the I-beam prize for their design of a multi-purpose wheelchair for CP children.
February 2019
We received the CBB Seed Fund to investigate spasticity.
November 2018
Robotics Manipulator course (ME547) will be given in Winter 2019.
September 2018
A new graduate course titled Human Movement Neuromechanics (ME 780) is given in Fall 2018, 2019, ....
March 2018
Arash Arami gave an invited talk at Grand River hospital.
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January 2018
Publication update
Our paper on Knee Implant Loosening Detection: A Vibration Analysis Investigation got accepted Annals of Biomedical Engineering.
Contact:
E7 3427, University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W, N2L 3G1
Email:
arash[dot]arami[at]uwaterloo[dot]ca
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