Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Adjunct 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
  

Human Biomechanics and Control Laboratory

Courses

Publications

Students

Other sites

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