Powered Prostheses

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, USA Assistant Professor, Director of the Human Performance and Robotics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department - ECS 645, California State University Long Beach, USA Mo Rastgaar is an associate professor at Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2008 and continued his research as a postdoc at MIT till 2010. He was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Tech prior to joining Purdue in 2019. His research interests are Dynamics, Controls, Human-Robot Physical Interactions, and Design and Control of Assistive Robots and Robotic Prostheses.

1. Control of transhumeral prostheses based on electromyography pattern recognition: from amputees to deep learning 2. The 2-DOF mechanical impedance of the human ankle during poses of the stance phase 3. Task-dependent modulation of multi-dimensional human ankle stiffness 4. Kriging for prosthesis control 5. Disturbance observer applications in rehabilitation robotics: an overview 6. Reduction in the metabolic cost of human walking gaits using quasi-passive upper body exoskeleton 7. Neural control in prostheses and exoskeletons 8. Stair negotiation made easier using low-energy interactive stairs 9. Semi-active prostheses for low-power gait adaptation