Katie Poggensee

Can't believe it's been nearly a decade of HILO! Big thanks to @pjslade and Steve for putting it all together

@HelenJHuang @gelsyto @KJakubowski26 @CrespoMarchal @EveldMaura Join us for interesting talks, an insightful panel, and the chance to interact with these incredible women! utwente.nl/en/et/br24moto… 1 September 2024, 9:00-13:00, Neue Universtät, Room HS3 Organized by: @EveldMaura @EdwinAsseldonk @asvoloshina

Want to incorporate neuroscience and motor learning principles into your human-robot systems? Come check out our workshop at #BioRob2024 to hear about novel strategies and best practices from @HelenJHuang, @gelsyto, @KJakubowski26, @CrespoMarchal, @EveldMaura, and Dr. Maggie Wu!

All set and ready to go for #ScienceIsWonderful! Let's hope the robots and VR last for the next 48 hours... #TUDelft #ErasmusMC #ScienceIsBeautiful

Very cool work coming out of the Hybrid Robotics Lab!

@plopesresearch @romainnith Thanks! And that backpack is incredibly cool. The lab I'm currently in does a lot of work with VR, and I'm really impressed by how big of an effect you got with such a small (but powerful) device :)

@klpoggensee Love this work Katie! We did some work on vertical moving weights (youtube.com/watch?v=57izT0… by my PhD student @romainnith , who's also a fan of your work) and found some interesting illusions while jumping. We always wondered about a gyroscopic version, now wonder no more! 🥳

Excited to share our new results on the GyroPack, a wearable robotic gyroscopic backpack that assists balance! doi.org/10.3390/health…

@scmov Thanks! It assists balance (e.g., how long you can stand on a beam), but not loss of balance. For falling, you'd need something much more powerful like a body weight support harness or a mitigation strategy to prevent injuries (like an air bag).

@klpoggensee Interesting system but how it can assist mechanically during losing balance?

@NonnekesJorik Thanks Jorik!

Now is probably a good time (many months late) to share with the Twitterverse that I got a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue this research. If any PhDers have questions on European postdoc grants, I have a long list and lots of thoughts so feel free to reach out...

My fave side results: The placebo worked! People liked it better than unpowered modes, even though performance was the same. The better performing mode (low vs. high) was subject-specific (this former HILO researcher isn't surprised), but 77% of people favored their “best” mode.

One more conference highlight from last month - what a pleasure getting to know this group of brilliant women at @DynamicWalking! @IntWomenBiomech @womeninroboticz

@PKudzia_BioMech @StevenHCollins @KuoArt @adamczyk_peter @Ferris_vball @maxdonelan We used this to calibrate the lab back in 2015, and I don't remember making major changes to the code. (Granted this was many many years ago, so my memory could be foggy...)

@StevenHCollins @KuoArt @adamczyk_peter @Ferris_vball @maxdonelan I see there is code in the Appendix from 2007 so maybe there is some newer code out there. Just asking around before diving deep into this to calibrate our force plates. Many thanks!

G&P 2009: "A simple method for calibrating force plates and force treadmills using an instrumented pole" Does anyone have code/experience with this calibration they would be willing to share with our lab. @StevenHCollins @KuoArt @adamczyk_peter @Ferris_vball @maxdonelan

@p_franks_ @inseungkang @Michael_J_0 @KarlZelik @doctorBobG @g_m_bryan @inseungkang brings up a great point: that initial adaptation *could* reveal ways to guide people, but may be based on short-term effects that eventually fade. Ex. co-contraction seen in early exo studies. @sabrinabram also has a great paper on how variability changes over time.

@inseungkang @Michael_J_0 @KarlZelik @doctorBobG @g_m_bryan 400 hours well spent 😅

If you're evaluating #exoskeletons (or reading studies that do), this may be the single most important thing to do 👇🏽 Before jumping to conclusions or overgeneralizing, ask yourself: 🤔 How much time were users given to acclimate to the exo (i.e., the new tool)? A short 🧵...

@p_franks_ @inseungkang @Michael_J_0 @KarlZelik @doctorBobG @g_m_bryan @p_franks_ and @g_m_bryan, you should see if Guinness can certify that as a world record...

@KarlZelik Thanks for the share, Karl! This is exactly the first question I ask myself whenever I read a new wearable robotics paper :)

Sharing from Heike Vallery (linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…): We have an open #phd position on spherical #robots as motivational toys, at the intersection of @erasmusuni, @ErasmusMC & @tudelft: convergence.nl/2022036-vac04/

So exciting to see it all come together! As a former CMUEBL/SUBLer, I too am amazed (though maybe not totally surprised) that this was achieved so quickly. Congrats to @pjslade, @aiprof_mykel, @StanfordNMBL, and @StevenHCollins :) I can't wait to see where you go from here!