Welcome to the website for the Motion Research Group in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo directed by Professor John McPhee. We specialize in dynamic simulation, model-based control, and design optimization of mechanical, mechatronic, and biomechatronic multibody systems.
News
John McPhee named Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Fellow
John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been elected as part of the incoming class of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Fellows for his outstanding scholarly achievements, the highest honour in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Congratulations!
AliAsghar MohammadiNasrabadi wins Best Paper Award at the North American Spine Society (NASS) international conference
PDF researcher AliAsghar MohammadiNasrabadi won the Best Paper Award at the 2025 North American
Spine Society (NASS) International Annual Meeting for his work on "Automated Lenke classification for preoperative spine surgery by extracting anatomical landmarks from X-ray images using a deep learning approach." Congratulations!
Vasylysa Korovkina presents at the Conference of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2025)
MASc candidate Vasylysa Korovkina presented her research on "Active Swimming Prosthesis with IMU-based Wrist Control" at the 47th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2025).