Subproject SP3.1: Human and machine walking together

Here you can find the core publications of the subproject

  • Mohseni, O., Mahmoudi, A., Firouzi, V., Seyfarth, A., Vallery, H., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2024). Balance recovery schemes following mediolateral gyroscopic moment perturbations during walking. PloS one, vol. 19 no. 12, p. e0315414
  • Mohseni, O., Berry, A., Schumacher, C., Seyfarth, A., Vallery, H., & Sharbafi, M. A. (under review). Muscular Responses to Upper Body Mediolateral Angular Momentum Perturbations during Overground Walking, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, vol. 13, p1509090.
  • Rashty, A. M. N., Sharbafi, M. A., & Seyfarth, A. (2024). Role of compliant mechanics and motor control in hopping-from human to robot.” Scientific Report, Nature, vol. 14, No. 1, p. 6820.
  • Mohammadinejad, A., Sharbafi, M. A., & Seyfarth, A. (2024). Variability in hopping is largely individual and reduced by a metronome. In 2024 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) (pp. 919-924). IEEE.
  • Scholl, P., Firouzi, V., Karimi, M. T., Seyfarth, A., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2023). Virtual pivot point model predicts instability in Parkinsonian gaits. IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC2023), Oahu, Hawaii, USA.
  • Firouzi, V., Mohseni, O., Seyfarth, A., von Stryk, O., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2024). Exploring the control of whole-body angular momentum in young and elderly based on the virtual pivot point concept. Royal Society of Open Science, vol. 11. No. 9, p. 240273.
  • Alokla, E., Stasica, M., Puttke, M., Firouzi, V., Sharbafi, M. A., & Seyfarth, A. (2025). The Effects of Imagination on Performance in Ballet: A Case Study. Sports, vol 13, no. 5, pp. 132.
  • Davoodi, A., Iranikhah, M., Ahmadi, A., Seyfarth, A., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2024). “Bioinspired Design and Control of BATEX, An Exosuit With Biarticular Compliant Actuators,” in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Actuators, in IEEE/ASME Trans. on Mechatronics, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 1352-1362.
  • Drewing, N., Ahmadi, A., Xion, X., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2024). “Comparison of Empirical and Reinforce¬ment Learning (RL)-Based Control Based on Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) for Walking Assistance: Does AI Always Win?” Biomimetics, vol 9, No. 11, p.665.
  • Mahmoudi, A., Khosrotabar, M., Gramann, K., Rinderknecht, S., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2025). Using passive BCI for personalization of assistive wearable devices: a proof-of-concept study. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 33, pp. 476-487.
  • Mahmoudi, A., Khosrotabar, M., Kuhmann, J., Grimmer, M., Rinderknecht, S., & Sharbafi, M. A. (2024). Feasibility of utilizing passive BCI for assistance evaluation: a case study on a knee exoskeleton. 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS Intl. Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob) (pp. 235-242).
  • Khosrotabar, M., Mahmoudi, A., Sharbafi, M. (2024). Passive BCI Feasibility in Evaluating Knee Exoskeleton Assistance. Mobile Brain Body Imaging Conference 2024, Piran, Slovenia

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