Postdoctoral positions are available. 

See details here.  

PhD and Masters positions are available see more details here.

Iara Santelices presented her work in RL-based control of calf compression for improving blood velocity at BSN 2023. 

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.   

Ehsan Tahvilian joined the lab as a new PhD student. Lyndon Tang and Rachel Du joined the lab as new Master's students.  

Our recently published work on A data-driven prediction of material hardness in cast-forging process of magnesium alloys published in MaterialsToday Communications. 

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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. 

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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.  

Julia Foellmer and Mo Shushtari presented their work on exoskeleton feedforward controller in ICAIR 2023.

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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.

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Two of our FYDP teams Phanes and  TrainPro are finalist for Norman Esch competition Award.

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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.

A news piece about our Alumni Milad Nazarahari and role of AMTD fellowship in broadeningadvancing rehabilitation robotics research .

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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. 

Our new robust joint torque estimator method has been published in IEEE Trans. of Biomedical Engineering. 

Link to the paper can be found here. 

A big Congratulation to Dr. Milad Nazarahari for starting his new role as Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. ​

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. 

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. 

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.

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 

Congratulation Rezvan Nasiri and Hannah Dinovitzer on winning one of

the best poster awards

of RehabWeek 2022!! 

Mohammad Shushtari presented our work on robust and accurate gait phase estimation in RehabWeek 2022.

Twitter link. 

Congratulation our FYDP team PHANES to got into the final round (one of five finalists) of Demo day challenge by Praxis-Ideation Clinic!! 

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! 

Our paper on estimator fusion for cuffless blood pressure estimation and an uncertainty measure got accepted in Nature Publishing Scientific Reports! 

Nirosh Manohara joined the lab as a new co-op student.

Welcome to the lab, Nirosh! 

Nirosh Manohara received the NSERC USRA scholarship.

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Congratulation, Nirosh!

Jai Parajapati joined the lab as a new URA.

Welcome to the lab, Jai!

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.

Cederick Landry obtained NSERC PDF scholarship. 

Congratulation Cederick! and best of luck at the University of Pittsburgh!

Iara Santelices obtained NSERC CGS-M scholarship. 

Congratulation Iara!

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

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. 

Three URAs joined our lab to work on projects ranged from exoskeleton control to investigating the neural sensory fusion

for human movement control. 

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. 

Sahand Ajami joined the lab as an MASc student.

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.   

Arash Arami has been selected as the chair of NSERC Scholarship and Fellowships committee on Computing Sciences.   

Milad Nazarahari joined  our lab as a new PDF to work on upper limb neurorehabilitation. 

Our new paper on Online Reference Trajectory Adaptation: A Personalized Control Strategy for Lower Limb Exoskeletons got accepted in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 

Rezvan Nasiri presented the novel controller Virtual Energy Regulator in IEEE IROS 2021. 

Link to the video.

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.

Milad Nazarahari featured in the UW news on his project related to stroke robotic rehabilitation (link).

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

Our paper, An Adaptive Assistance Controller to Optimize the Exoskeleton Contribution in Rehabilitation, got published in journal of Robotics. Paper link 

Cederick Landry presented our work on Estimation Fusion for Cuffless Blood Pressure Prediction at IEEE Body Sensors Networks (BSN) 2021. 

Yesung Cha successfully obtained his MASc and completed his thesis on Spasticity Modeling at Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab. 

Congrats Yesung!!

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

A preprint of our paper on  Balance Strategy in Hoverboard Control is now available at Research Square: Link

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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!!

Sola Weng presented his work on natural walking with deep RL agent in ICRA 2021.

Iara Santelices received Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS). Congratulation Iara!!

Mohammad Shushtari has successfully defended his PhD comprehensive exam.

Congratulation Mohammad!!

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 !!

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!!

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 

Two CBB Seed grants were obtained in two separate collaborations with Digital Industrial Ergonomics & Shoulder Evaluation Lab.

and Haptic Computing Lab. 

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. 

Arash Arami gave a talk titled Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics, in Robotics & AI Research Workshop, February 24th at University of Waterloo (Virtual). 

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).

We also released a dataset, Wearable Physiological and Blood Pressure Measurements During Activities of Daily Living, on IEEE dataport (link).  

Iara Santelices joined the lab as an MASc student. 

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. 

Our abstract on AI-driven manufacturing got accepted 12th InternationalConference on Magnesium Alloys and their Applications (Mg 2021).

New agreement was finalized between our lab and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute for data sharing for spasticity research. 

Tharindu Abesin Kodippili has successfully defended his PhD comprehensive exam. 

Congratulation Tharindu!!

Arash Arami has been appointed to NSERC Selection Committee for scholarship evaluations. 

Our paper on Quantitative Modeling of Spasticity for Clinical Assessment, Treatment and Rehabilitation was published in journal of Sensors.

Hannah Dinovitzer joined the lab as an MASc student.

Our paper on joint impedance identification during walking was twitted by IEEE TNSRE (Twitter link).

Cederick Landry presented the work on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living in EMBC 2020.

Lucy Liu joined the lab as a co-op student.

Our paper titled Clustering-based approach to identify joint impedance during walking was accepted in IEEE TNSRE (early access link).

Our paper titled Cable-driven robotic interface for lower limb neuromechanics identification was accepted in IEEE TBME (early access link).

We participated in a COVID-19 forecasting tournament at the UW.

Julia Goyal obtained the Prestigious 

SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS-D).

Congratulation Julia!!

We published the first systematic measurement of hip joint viscoelasticity in isometric condition in IEEE TNSRE (Twitter link). 

Our paper on Hip Neuromechanics was accepted in IEEE Trans on Neural System and Rehab Engineering (link1, link2).

Our paper on Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation for Activities of Daily Living is accepted in EMBC 2020.

In a collaboration with the Structural Biomechanics Lab we secured CBB fund to investigate orthopedic implant loosening. 

Cederick Landry won the first place award in 3MT (3-minute thesis) competition (Twitter link) 

2 papers got accepted in CSME 2020.

Our paper on predictive dynamical modeling of blood pressure waveform was published in IEEE Sensors Journal  (link). 

Jiacheng (Sola) Weng joined the lab as a new MASc student. 

An article about our new gait freezing prediction algorithm was published in CSME Bulletin, Fall 2019, page 17  (Bulletin link, article link). 

Our paper (collaboration with EPFL) on  Shoulder robotic simulator is now available online in ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering (link).

Our paper on Blood Pressure Waveform Estimation was published in IEEE EMBC 2019 Proceedings (link).

Our paper  on  Prediction of freezing of gait in Parkinson's disease was published in IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering,  (link). 

Mohammad Shushtari joined the Neuromechanics and Assistive Robotics Lab as a new PhD student.

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). 

Our paper got published in the proceedings of IEEE ICORR 2019, Toronto, on the effect of visual information on bimanual motor tasks.  

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. 

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. 

Congratulation team OKO haptics: Udayan Sarin, Curtis Lambert, Jessie Dhillon and Hernando Castano for winning the Baylis Medical Award. 

Congratulation Cederick Landry and teammates for winning the first place award in CBB Bio-Hackathon 2019. 

Appearance in Waterloo Research News:

Arash Arami received the prestigious New Frontiers in Research Fund. 

Arash Arami gave a talk about personalized assistive robotics at Toronto Rehab Institute as a part of Jousse Lecture Series.

Team Akomodi won the I-beam prize for their design of a multi-purpose wheelchair for CP children. 

We received the CBB Seed Fund to investigate spasticity. 

Robotics Manipulator course (ME547) will be given in Winter 2019. 

A new graduate course titled Human Movement Neuromechanics (ME 780) is given in Fall 2018, 2019, .... 

Arash Arami gave an invited talk at Grand River hospital.

Our paper on Knee Implant Loosening Detection: A Vibration Analysis Investigation  got accepted Annals of Biomedical Engineering.