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.
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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).
Bhavya Giri Goswami presents at the Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics (ECCOMAS 2025)
MASc candidate Bhavya Giri Goswami presented his research on "Compensatory foot placement estimation for impulsive torso perturbation", at the 12th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Multibody Dynamics at the Technical Campus of the University of Innsbruck.