Projects
My research is on human movement from a robotics and biomechanics perspective. Here you can find my various projects.
Energetic optimization in standing and gait initiation
Are balance and gait intitiation driven by a minimization of energy expenditure?
Cortical responses to balance perturbations persist without active postural control
Do cortical balance responses, such as the Balance N1, really depend on balance?
Learning reversed postural control
Can humans relearn (and unlearn) how to stand when we completely reverse their control over balancing movement?
Age-dependent vestibular contributions to energy expenditure in treadmill and overground walking
Our reliance on vestibular input changes as we age; could this explain energetic differences across age in the metabolic cost of walking on a treadmill as compared to overground?
Dynamics of modified wheelchair pushed from the side
This patented wheelchair modification allows the caregiver to push the wheelchair while walking beside the occupant without additional effort.
Contextual inference in associative learning
Different mechanisms of contextual inference govern continuous and conditioned postural responses.
Project Inspiration: low-cost mechanical ventilator
Testing and validation of a rapidly manufacturable, low-cost ventilator design based on the East-Radcliffe ventilator from the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden.
Robohopper
A hopping robot built developed as the first-year mechanical engineering BSc capstone project at TU Delft.