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Mechatronic Systems

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Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Matt Carney

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Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.

Mechanical, electrical, and dynamic control systems recreate biological behavior with synthetic hardware.

Research Topics
#robotics #computer science #biomechanics #mechanical engineering #engineering #mechatronics #prosthetics
Project Research

Personalized Bionics for Dynamic Gait

The design of next-generation bionic ankles and knees aims to improve bionic actuators on all metrics: range of motion, power density, band…
Project Research

Design of a 2-Degree-of-Freedom Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis for Rock Climbing

Lower extremity amputation leads to limitations of biological function of individuals, which leads to challenges remaining physically activ…
Project Research

Sensor-fusions for an EMG controlled robotic prosthesis

Current unmotorized prostheses do not provide adequate energy return during late stance to improve level-ground locomotion. Robotic prosthe…
Thesis Research

Design and Evaluation of a Biomimetic Agonist-Antagonist Active Knee Prosthesis

Martinez-Villalpando, E. "Design and Evaluation of a Biomimetic Agonist-Antagonist Active Knee Prosthesis"
Publication Research

Clutchable series-elastic actuator: Implications for prosthetic knee design

E. J. Rouse, L. M. Mooney and H. M. Herr Clutchable series-elastic actuator: Implications for prosthetic knee design International Journal of Robotics Research, 2014, in press
Video Videos

#10 Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis

Hugh Herr and his Biomechatronics research group at the MIT Media Lab have developed the first powered ankle-foot prosthesis. The novel pro…
Publication Research

Biomimetic prosthetic knee using antagonistic muscle-like activation

E.C. Martinez-Villalpando, J. Weber, G. Elliott, H. M. Herr