How do people #walk with a #prosthesis? What's the effect of walking speed? Is it different for K2 and K3? To answer these questions, we collected a #biomechanics dataset of 18 above-knee subjects, K2 and K3, walking at 5 speeds and made it openly available. #openscience CDMRP

Automated gap-filling for marker-based biomechanical motion capture data tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Gap-filling for marker-based motion capture data is time-consuming. Our new work, led by Jonathan Camargo, presents an automated method to reduce this time by 80% - and it's all open-source! Check out the paper below. Paper: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… Code: github.com/JonathanCamarg…

Locomotion mode is difficult to predict across users. In our new work, led by Krishan Bhakta, we found that XGBoost outperformed LDA and NN in predicting locomotion mode across varying slopes and stair heights for individuals with transfemoral amputation. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/91348…

This knee exoskeleton was developed by Aaron Young and his team in the in EPIC Lab.

A comprehensive, open-source dataset of lower limb #biomechanics in multiple conditions of stairs, ramps, and level-ground ambulation and transitions sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Nice work and valuable dataset with lab-based and wearable sensors from by Jonathan Camargo EPIC Lab

Huge congratulations to Jenny Leestma (Jenny Leestma, GaTech PoWeR Lab) and Keaton Scherpereel on receiving the #NSFGRFP Fellowship!! We're very proud of you two! Robotics@GT Georgia Tech ME

We have a Dr. in the house! Congratulations to Dr. Jonathan Camargo (Jonathan Camargo) who successfully defended his dissertation, becoming the first doctoral student to graduate from the EPIC Lab! Robotics@GT Georgia Tech ME

Walking with available leg prostheses is highly inefficient. In our latest #research study, we show that a powered hip #exoskeleton improves #amputee #walking economy by ~15%. Funded by CDMRP University of Utah John and Marcia Price College of Engineering Published with Springer Nature in Nature Medicine

I'm looking to bring on PhD and Master's students for Fall 2022 (or earlier). If you are interested in developing assistive robotics for people with mobility impairments, please reach out! Examples of past projects on my site: shepherdlab.sites.northeastern.edu

Congratulations to Dr. Krishan Bhakta for successfully defending his dissertation!! Krishan Bhakta's work focused on improving intelligence of robotic transfemoral prostheses. Georgia Tech ME

Please check out our newest publication! Using wearable sensors, we can accurately estimate biological hip flexion/extension moments over various terrains!

Happy to see our work get published in RA-L! As always, it was made possible by wonderful comments/suggestions from our editors!