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Dr

Tomislav Bacek

Research Fellow In Personalised Assistive Robot
Mechanical Engineering
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robotics
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Dr

Tomislav Bacek

 
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Engineering
 
Primary Interest
Assistive and Rehabilitation Robotics
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Dr

Tomislav Bacek

 

Dr. Tomislav Bacek is a Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

Tomislav completed a Master's in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics and Robotics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 2012 and his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, in 2019.

He joined the University of Melbourne as a Research Fellow in Personalised Assistive Robotic Systems in June 2020.

Tomislav's main area of research is assistive and rehabilitation robotics. Currently, his work focuses on making human-robot interaction personalised, optimal, and co-adaptive.

Tomislav has a strong background in applied engineering shaped through design, integration, control, and validation of complex (compliant) mechatronics systems. His experience includes leading national and international research projects on intelligent robotic devices, analyses of large experimental datasets, as well as design, implementation, and coordination of human-robot interaction experiments. During his affiliation with universities in Croatia and Belgium, Tomislav was also a teaching assistant in dynamical systems control and mechanisms design.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 18 most recent scholarly works by Tomislav Bacek.

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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..

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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..

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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

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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  |  2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob)

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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

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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

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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

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A novel modular compliant knee joint actuator for use in assistive and rehabilitation orthoses

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

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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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)

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Compliant lightweight actuator designs for robotic assistance and rehabilitation exoskeletons

D Lefeber, M Moltedo, T Bacek, K Langlois, K Junius, B Vanderborght

Book Chapter  |  2017  |  Biosystems and Biorobotics

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The New Generation of Compliant Actuators for Use in Controllable Bio-Inspired Wearable Robots

T Bacek, M Moltedo, J Gonzalez-Vargas, G Asin Prieto, MC Sanchez-Villamanan, JC Moreno, D Lefeber

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  WEARABLE ROBOTICS: CHALLENGES AND TRENDS

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Design and Experimental Evaluation of a Lightweight, High-Torque and Compliant Actuator for an Active Ankle Foot Orthosis

Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Bacek, Kevin Langlois, Karen Junius, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  2017 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

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A Compliant Lightweight and Adaptable Active Ankle Foot Orthosis for Robotic Rehabilitation

Marta Moltedo, Tomislav Bacek, Kevin Langlois, Karen Junius, Bram Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  WEARABLE ROBOTICS: CHALLENGES AND TRENDS

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Mechanical design of a lightweight compliant and adaptable active ankle foot orthosis

M Moltedo, T Bacek, K Junius, B Vanderborght, D Lefeber

Conference Proceedings  |  2016  |  2016 6th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob)

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Conceptual design of a novel variable stiffness actuator for use in lower limb exoskeletons

T Bacek, R Unal, M Moltedo, K Junius, H Cuypers, B Vanderborght, D Lefeber

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)

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GPU implementation of the feedforward neural network with modified Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm

Bacek Tomislav, Dubravko Majetic, Danko Brezak

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  2014 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)

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Real-time vehicle navigation in unknown environment with obstacles using analytical fuzzy controller and potential field method

Tomislav Bacek, Josip Kasac, Dubravko Majetic, Danko Brezak

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  2012 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems

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A comparison of feed-forward and recurrent neural networks in time series forecasting

Danko Brezak, Tomislav Bacek, Dubravko Majetic, Josip Kasac, Branko Novakovic

Conference Proceedings  |  2012  |  2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics (CIFEr)

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Positions

Research Fellow In Personalised Assistive Robot

Mechanical Engineering

Education

Doctorate in Engineering Sciences

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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