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The Locomotion Seminar is a weekly gathering of students and faculty who study locomotion from diverse perspectives, including robotics, biomechanics, motor control, computer vision, and movement science. Each week, a graduate student, or occasionally a faculty member, presents on a topic related to their research. The seminar is designed to encourage lively discussion, peer-to-peer interaction, and constructive feedback, particularly from fellow students.
Rather than a formal lecture, each session is structured like an informal workshop or mini-conference, offering participants the opportunity to gain new perspectives on their projects, practice presenting and answering questions, and build connections with colleagues.
The seminar welcomes participants from both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as occasional external visitors. Its central goal is to strengthen the Pittsburgh community of researchers working on locomotion and movement science, fostering dialogue across disciplines and institutions.
9/5: Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton to Improve Human Mobility (Inseung Kang)
9/12: Learning Exoskeleton Control Policy via Musculoskeletal Model Simulation with Deep Reinforcement Learning (Ilseung Park from MetaMobility Lab)
9/19: Penguin Robotics: Using Biomechanical Insights to Improve Bipedal Robot Stability (Stacy Ashlyn from NYU)
9/26: Adaptive Prosthesis Control Through Intent and Environmental Integration (Russell Xing from Hartmut Geyer's Group)
10/3: No Seminar
10/10: Investigating the Effects of Human-in-the-Loop Optimized Personalized Exosuit Assistance in Parkinson’s Disease (Jinwoo Hwang from MetaMobility Lab)
10/17: The Inside Story of Movement: Mapping Neural Drive, Muscle Function, and Motion in Cerebral Palsy (Shriniwas Patwardhan from NIH)
10/24: Effect of Assistance Parameters on Gait Stability During Ground Slip Perturbations Using a Robotic Hip Exoskeleton (Maria Tagliaferri from MetaMobility Lab)
10/31: Split-belt walking adapts the perception of symmetric walking while preserving sensitivity to speed differences (Marcela Gonzalez-Rubio from the Sensorimotor Learning Laboratory)
11/7: TBD
11/14: TBD
11/21: TBD
11/28: No Seminar, Thanksgiving Break
12/5: TBD
Fall 2025 Information
Location: Wean Hall Room 4709
Date: Every Friday at 2PM
Contact for signup: inseung@cmu.edu
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