At the 2024 ISEA Engineering of Sport 14 Conference, MASc candidate Cedric Attias (left) presented his work on "Biomechanical Analysis of Disc Golf Throws to Improve Performance."
PDF researcher AliAsghar MohammadiNasrabadi presented his research at the European Society of Biomechanics Conference (ESBiomech 2024) in Edinburgh.
Research on "muscle activity following postural perturbations wearing a lower limb exoskeleton" by Claudia Town, Keaton Inkol, John McPhee, and Andrew Laing was featured at the 2024 Ontario Biomechanics Conference.
A baseball pitching robot that spun out of the Motion Research Group (now Trajekt Sports), as well as a hockey slapshot robot (THoR), were recently featured on the Los Angeles Times.
John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, joined Mary Ito on the CRAM podcast to discuss his research on improving electric and autonomous vehicles, developing exoskeletons for stroke patients, and increasing the performance of Olympic and pro athletes.
PhD candidate AliAsghar MohammadiNasrabadi successfully defended his PhD thesis "Optimizing Total Hip Arthroplasty using Predictive Dynamic Simulation of Human Sit-to-Stand Movement and Deep Learning for Flexible Spinopelvic Model Identification" - Congratulations!
This week, we welcomed Professor Míriam Febrer-Nafría from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya for discussions and data collection for her research on how neurologic and musculoskeletal impairments affect mobility.
PhD candidate Keaton Inkol successfully defended his PhD thesis "Dynamics and model-based control of balance recovery in humans using lower-limb exoskeletons." - Congratulations!
PhD student Kevin Zhu presented MoRG's research in computer vision and sports at the 2023 International Conference on Sport Sciences Research and Technology Support (icSPORTS) conference, including research in fencing and chess.
John McPhee, Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, presented a seminar on "Optimizing Sports Performance using Predictive Dynamic Simulation and Machine Learning" at the College of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourgto.