Tomislav Bacek

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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  |  2011 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics