At the 2022 North American Congress on Biomechanics (NACOB), MASc candidate Sydney Bell presented her work on a muscle torque generator model for a two degree-of-freedom shoulder joint [see page 46].
PhD candidate Mahdokht Ezati successfully defended her PhD thesis "Predictive Dynamic Simulation of Child Gait Using Direct Collocation Optimal Control" - Congratulations!
Research by PhD student Brokoslaw Laschowski was featured by Jensen Huang, President and CEO of NVIDIA, in his keynote talk at the 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC). Brok's PhD research focuses on deep learning for egocentric vision, modelling the visual information processing neural networks in the brain. These brain-inspired algorithms are used for environment-adaptive control of robotic systems.
Research by PhD student Brok Laschowski and supervised by Professor John McPhee was featured on BBC News. Brok's PhD research focuses on visual perception and environment-adaptive control of robotic systems using deep learning, modelling the visual information processing neural networks in the brain.
MASc student Arash Hashemi received Best Paper Awards at the 2020 International Conference of Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics (CDSR20). Arash’s paper focused on “Trajectory Planning for a Human-Robot Interaction Rehabilitation System using Direct-Collocation Optimization”. Congratulations!
Photograph - Rowan Ferrabee (left) CTO of Trajekt Sports, and Joe John (right) Owner of Guycan Machine Works.
Parya Khoshroo, MoRG member and MASc student in Systems Design Engineering, received 2nd Prize in the Three Minute Thesis Competition at the University of Waterloo for her research innovations in stroke rehabilitation robotics and virtual reality. Congratulations Parya!
Alongside Professor John McPhee, MoRG alumnus Drs. Naser Mehrabi and Mohammad Shourijeh recently served as Topic Editors for the Special Issue "Advances in Musculoskeletal Modeling and their Application to Neurorehabilitation" in Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
John McPhee, Tenured Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been awarded the 2019 Ontario Professional Engineers Association (OPEA) Medal of Engineering Excellence for his influential contributions toward the a
Professors Arash Arami and John McPhee have been awarded the John R. Evans Leaders Fund by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (valued at $182,000) for their collaborative research “Neuromechanics-Based Assistive Robotics: Towards Optimal Personalized Robotic Assistance”.