Tomislav Bacek

Human Musculoskeletal and Energetic Adaptations to Unilateral Robotic Knee Gait Assistance.

Tomislav Bacek, Marta Moltedo, Ben Serrien, Kevin Langlois, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber, Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero

Journal article  |  2021  |  IEEE Trans Biomed Eng

OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to analyse the human musculoskeletal and energetic adaptation mechanisms when physically interacting wi..

Varying mechanical compliance benefits energy efficiency of a knee joint actuator

T Baček, M Moltedo, J Geeroms, B Vanderborght, C Rodriguez-Guerrero, D Lefeber

Journal article  |  2020  |  Mechatronics

In the field of wearable robots, actuator efficiency and user safety are frequently addressed by intentionally adding compliance t..

Walking with a powered ankle-foot orthosis: the effects of actuation timing and stiffness level on healthy users

Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Baček, Ben Serrien, Kevin Langlois, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber, Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation

Background In the last decades, several powered ankle-foot orthoses have been developed to assist the ankle joint of their users d..

Variable stiffness ankle actuator for use in robotic-assisted walking: Control strategy and experimental characterization

Marta Moltedo, Gaia Cavallo, Tomislav Bacek, John Lataire, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber, Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero

Journal article  |  2019  |  MECHANISM AND MACHINE THEORY

Despite the increasing interest in using powered ankle-foot orthoses for assistive purposes, their development and benchmarking st..

Design and evaluation of a torque-controllable knee joint actuator with adjustable series compliance and parallel elasticity

Tomislav Bacek, Marta Moltedo, Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero, Joost Geeroms, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber

Journal article  |  2018  |  MECHANISM AND MACHINE THEORY

Compliant actuators are increasingly being designed for wearable robots (WRs) to more adequately address their issues with safety,..

Design and Development of Customized Physical Interfaces to Reduce Relative Motion between the User and a Powered Ankle Foot Exoskeleton

K Langlois, M Moltedo, T Bacek, C Rodriguez-Guerrero, B Vanderborght, D Lefeber

Conference Proceedings  |  2018  |  Proceedings of the IEEE RAS and EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

Exoskeletons have shown their ability to assist locomotion and augment human performances. However, the benefits of wearing these ..

Powered ankle-foot orthoses: the effects of the assistance on healthy and impaired users while walking

Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Bacek, Tom Verstraten, Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF NEUROENGINEERING AND REHABILITATION

In the last two decades, numerous powered ankle-foot orthoses have been developed. Despite similar designs and control strategies ..

Realtime Delayless Estimation of Derivatives of Noisy Sensor Signals for Quasi-Cyclic Motions with Application to Joint Acceleration Estimation on an Exoskeleton

K Tanghe, E Aertbeliën, J Vantilt, M Moltedo, T Bǎcek, D Lefeber, J De Schutter

Journal article  |  2018  |  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

The control of mechatronic systems can often be enhanced if realtime information on the derivatives of a signal is available. Thes..

EtherCAT Tutorial An Introduction for Real-Time Hardware Communication on Windows

Kevin Langlois, Tom van der Hoeven, David Rodriguez Cianca, Tom Verstraten, Tomislav Bacek, Bryan Convens, Carlos Rodriguez-Guerrero, Victor Grosu, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght

Journal article  |  2018  |  IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

ÏpSetting up real-time hardware communication for applications such as precise motion control can be time consuming and confusing...

BioMot Exoskeleton - Towards a Smart Wearable Robot for Symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction

Tomislav Bacek, Marta Moltedo, Kevin Langlois, Guillermo Asin Prieto, Maria Carmen Sanchez-Villamanan, Jose Gonzalez-Vargas, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber, Juan C Moreno

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  2017 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REHABILITATION ROBOTICS (ICORR)

This paper presents design of a novel modular lower-limb gait exoskeleton built within the FP7 BioMot project. Exoskeleton employs..