Jenna Burnett, a postdoc here at the U in the Department of Health and Kinesiology who does exciting work on biomechanics, bringing together hardware and data-driven modeling with a deep knowledge of kinesiology. Thursday, December 7th at 1pm WEB 1250 Bio: Jenna Burnett is a post-doc in the Department of Health and Kinesiology. She received a BS in Physics and Mathematics at Purdue University in 2015, before completing her MS in Kinesiology, with a focus on Biomechanics, at Iowa State University in 2017. Her master’s thesis investigated bone strain before and after a long distance run to exhaustion using...

Steve Collins, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Director, Stanford Biomechatronics Laboratory Friday, Dec. 1st at 3:00pm MEK 3550 ABSTRACT: Exoskeletons and active prosthetic limbs could improve mobility for hundreds of millions of people, but two serious challenges must first be overcome: we need ways of identifying what a device should do to benefit an individual user, and we need cheap, efficient hardware that can do it. In this talk, we will describe an approach to the design of wearable robots based on versatile emulator systems and algorithms that automatically customize assistance, which we call human-in-the-loop optimization. We will...