Associate Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology

Brief Biography

Research topics

• Mechanics and control of human walking
• Passive dynamic walking
  
• Adaptive Sensorimotor Control of Human Balance
  
• Age-Related Changes in Balance Control
  
• Force Feedback Control and Human Perception
  
• Automatic Generation of Equations of Motion
  
• Recruitment of motor units within muscle
  

Courses

Publications

Students

ME 490 Independent Study Opportunities

Other sites

• Go directly to the UM Passive Walking page
• Go directly to the Dynamics Workbench page
• UM Controls Group
• Dawn Tilbury's page
• Andy Ruina's page at Cornell
  
• University of Michigan