Locomotion Seminar

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.

• 8/28: Soft impedance learning for knee exoskeleton control (Ilseung Parkm, MetaMobility Lab) 

• 9/4: A unified kinematic representation enables reusable biological joint moment estimation (Jinwoo Hwang, MetaMobility Lab)

• 9/18: Maria Tagliaferri (MetaMobility Lab)

• 10/2: Impact of Mild Cognitive Impairment on Locomotor Learning and Dual Task Walking in Older Adults (Jiwon Choi, Sensorimotor Learning Lab from U of Pitt)

• 10/9: Biomechanics-informed inertial tracking achieves the accuracy of marker-based kinematics (Vu Phan, Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab)

• 10/23: Jimin An (MetaMobility Lab)

• 11/6: Changseob Song (MetaMobility Lab)