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[# Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory
## College of Engineering
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Improving Mobility and Quality of Life.
**Rehabilitation Robotics Lab** at the University of Illinois at Chicago aims to enhance human locomotion with assistive devices by coupling machine learning methods, a model-based approach, and hardware experimentation. Machine learning is used as a tool to learn human-robot interaction and human locomotion. This learning involves controlled human subject experiments with wearable robots. A simplified model is used to understand the underlying mechanism of such a learning process as the model is intellectually accessible. The outcome will inform effective wearable robot design and prescription to improve mobility and quality of life.
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[Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Wearable Robotics
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
The Rehab. Robotics Lab invites applications for a postdoctoral research position. The postdoctoral fellow will mainly work on the project – a robotic ankle-foot prosthesis control with biofeedback to maximize user comfort in…
[Researchers creating personalized robotic limb to reduce work intensity
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
“Assistant professors Myunghee Kim and Heejin Jeong, both in mechanical and industrial engineering at UIC, are collaborating to develop a personalized lower-limb assistive wearable robot that reduces human effort during physically intensive activities.…
[IROS Human-robot Symbiosis Workshop Call for Abstracts and Speakers
Saturday, September 4, 2021
Dear Colleagues, We invite you to attend the half-day workshop: Challenges and Opportunities of Human-robot Symbiosis: from Wearable Robots to Neurorobotics, at the 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).…
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### Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory
842 W. Taylor St., 1036 ERF, Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (312) 996-3601
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  Intelligent Assistive Methods
  Personalized assistive method considering individual’s unique human-robot interaction.
  Robust Controller Design
  Controller design under model and environment uncertainities
  Wearable robot user guidance
  User guidance on wearable robot use
  Research Platform
  Device design to research numerous assistance methods
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3. Intelligent Assistive Methods
# Intelligent Assistive Methods
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* Metabolic Cost Estimation
  Metabolic cost is an used as an indication of the stable and optimal walking conditions. This steady state metabolic rate is a measure of respiratory rate which in turn dependent on breath-by-breath o2 and co2 measures. The primary objective of this project determining the steady-state metabolism in a short duration.
* HIL Optimization for Ankle-foot Prosthesis
  This project will develop approaches to improving walking comfort and mobility of individuals with below knee amputation by characterizing the effects of prosthesis mechanical function on the residuum-socket interface pressures and exploring means of optimizing prosthetic foot stiffness for user comfort.
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3. Research Platform
# Research Platform
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* Current robots in Rehab. Robotics Lab
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* Wearable Robot Design and Manufacturing
  This project will develop a wearable robot platform for human-in-the-loop intervention design.
* User Friendly Interface Design
  This project will develop a user friendly research platform for human-in-the-loop intervention design.
3. Robust Controller Design
# Robust Controller Design
We have proposed a generalized control policy for rapid learning and control of unknown dynamics such as human-robot interaction or unmodeled disturbance, using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). GPR provides granular control for the tradeoff between bias and variance which is very critical in hyperparameter tuning and also influence the speed of training. We suggest that GPR could be an alternative to the present global policy optimizers such as neural network, solidifying the usage in environment independent control of interactive controllers.
3. User guidance on wearable robot use
# User guidance on wearable robot use
How user guidance can help with the use of a robotic exoskeleton.
One example is visual guidance - why a “user guide” for wearable robots is important and provides an interesting look at the interaction effects with training.
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# Activities
## Machine Learning for Human-in-the-Loop Optimization of Soft Wearable Robots  xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Copy link
Presentation by Professor Kim at the Workshop on Human Movement Science for Physical Human-Robot Collaboration at ICRA 2019
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N-back tasks are continuous-recognition measures that present stimulus sequences, such as letters or pictures, spaced several seconds apart. For each item in the sequence, the participant must decide whether the current stimulus matches the one displayed *n* trials ago, where *n* is a variable number that can be adjusted up or down to respectively increase or decrease cognitive load.
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NAO introduces itself to the Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory
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Posted on **October 13, 2021**
Posted on **September 04, 2021**
[![Research Position
Posted on **August 18, 2021**
The Rehabilitation Robotics Lab invites applications for a postdoctoral research position. This position is immediately available and is in support of wearable robot co-adaptation in Rehabilitation Robotics Lab at University of Illinois at…
[![Volunteer for Robotic Ankle-Foot Orthosis Study
Seongmi Song
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Posted on **July 06, 2020**
Rehabilitation Robotics Lab is looking for healthy adults (age 18-65) for a robotic orthosis study. Rehabilitation Robotics Lab is led by Dr. Kim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of…
[![KSEA Best Poster Award 2019
Rishab Kumar Bakshi
Posted on **August 17, 2019**
MIE PhD student Seongmi Song won the best poster award at the US-Korea Conference 2019 (UKC).
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3. Contact Us
# Contact Us
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Our lab is located on the east campus of University of Illinois at Chicago on the intersection of Halsted and Taylor St. It is part of the Engineering Research Facility (ERF) in room no. 1036. You can access the lab from the exterior of the ERF on Taylor St. The closest street parking is the UIC East Campus parking on S.Halsted St., which includes several disabled parking spaces.
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842 W. Taylor St.,
1036 Engineering Research Facility,
Chicago,
Illinois
60607
**Email:** myheekim@uic.edu
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3. Join the lab
# Join the lab
First, thanks for your interest in the Rehabilitation Robotics Lab.
The Lab is always looking for new students. We receive many emails every year and cannot respond to every inquiry. Please read this page carefully if you are interested in working with us:
## UIC Undergraduate Students:  xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Copy link
Please email    with your resume, unofficial transcript, and one or two sentences about your interests and availability, or chat with one of our current students if you know any. We generally add students at the beginning of the semester, but some positions may be open at any time.
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For Independent Study and Masters thesis inquiries, please contact    with your resume/CV, unofficial transcript, and statement of purpose. It is highly recommended reading our lab research paper and including a draft of a research proposal in your email.
## Prospective Ph.D. Students:  xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Copy link
We do not currently have any open positions. Exceptional Ph.D. candidates may email    directly to inquire about upcoming opportunities with your resume, unofficial transcript, and statement of purposes. Selected publication indicating yourprevious research experience is welcomed.
## Postdoctoral and Research Specialist positions:  xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? Copy link
We do not currently have any open positions. Exceptional Postdoctoral/Research specialist candidates may email    directly to inquire about upcoming opportunities with their CV and representative publications.