Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researcher
Doctoral Students
Master’s Students
Undergraduate Students
Ezekiel Kaplan
Mechanical Engineering
kaplan.ez[at]northeastern.edu
since May 2023
Visiting Students
Highschool Research Interns
Chinmayi Goyal
Yorktown High School, NY
since Jan 2023
NeuMove is seeking members enthusiastic about
neuromechanical simulation, motor control,
leg exoskeletons, rehabilitation robotics,
gait experiments, biomechanics,
deep reinforcement learning, machine learning.
Find potential projects below,
and send your CV to [email protected]
to further discuss.
If you’re a Northeastern undergraduate or Master’s student,
you can get involved with our lab through specialized study groups.
After excelling in these groups over one or two semesters,
you will be invited to join our lab
and contribute to ongoing projects or possibly start your own.
1. Deep reinforcement learning to model human locomotion control
- Keywords: motor control, neuromechanical simulation, deep reinforcement learning, open-source software development, organizing academic competition
- Example tasks
- Develop RL frameworks for training physiologically plausible motor control models
- Develop open-source neuromechanical simulation environments
- Organize academic RL competitions and workshops
- Related links:
- NeurIPS 2022: MyoChallenge, MyoSuite (collaboration with Meta AI and U of Twente)
- NeurIPS 2019: Learn to Move competition, OpenSim-RL
- Paper 1: neuromechanical simulation, deep RL
- Paper 2: physiologically plausible control model, neuromechanical simulation
2. Predictive simulation framework for gait assistive exoskeletons
- Keywords: rehabilitation robotics, biomechanics, leg exoskeleton, gait analysis, predictive neuromechanical simulation
- Example tasks
- Develop customizable predictive neuromechanical simulation frameworks
- Conduct exoskeleton gait experiments to validate simulation predictions
- Develop and optimize exoskeleton controllers in simulation
- Related links:
- NIH R00 project
- Paper 1: exoskeleton experiment, human-in-the-loop optimization
- Paper 2: predictive neuromechanical simulation, elderly gait
3. Virtual neuromuscular control (VNMC) for versatile gait assistive exoskeletons
- Keywords: neuromuscular control, rehabilitation robotics, biomechanics, leg exoskeleton, gait analysis
- Example tasks
- VNMC: Convert human neuromechanical simulations to exoskeleton controllers
- Develop and control leg exoskeletons
- Conduct exoskeleton gait experiments in indoor and outdoor environments
- Related links:
Master’s Student Alumni
Guangping Liu
Mechanical Engineering
liu.guangp[at]northeastern.edu
May 2022 - Sep 2023