Prof. Dr. Konrad Stadler

Prof. Dr. Konrad Stadler

ZHAW School of Engineering
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Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 58 934 78 27
konrad.stadler@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Position

Programme director Master of Science in Engineering

Education and Continuing education

Education

Dr. sc. techn.
ETH Zurich
1999 - 2003
Dipl. El. Ing. ETH
ETH Zurich
1993 - 1999

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0316-2657

Projects

HumanTech / Team member / completed
Soft modular biomimetic exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments / Co-project leader / completed
Robo-Mate – Intelligent exoskeleton based on human-robot interaction for manipulation of heavy goods in Europe’s factories of the future / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Di Natali, C. et al. (2020) 'Pneumatic quasi-passive actuation for soft assistive lower limbs exoskeleton', Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 14(31). doi: 10.3389/fnbot.2020.00031.
Di Natali, C. et al. (2019) 'Design and evaluation of a soft assistive lower limb exoskeleton', Robotica, 37(12), pp. 2014–2034. doi: 10.1017/S0263574719000067.
Huysamen, K. et al. (2018) 'Evaluation of a passive exoskeleton for static upper limb activities', Applied Ergonomics, 70, pp. 148–155. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2018.02.009.
de Kruif, B. J. et al. (2017) 'Simulation architecture for modelling interaction between user and elbow-articulated exoskeleton', Journal of Bionic Engineering, 14(4), pp. 706–715. doi: 10.1016/S1672-6529(16)60437-7.
Altenburger, R., Scherly, D. and Stadler, K. S. (2016) 'Design of a passive, iso-elastic upper limb exoskeleton for gravity compensation', ROBOMECH Journal, 3(12). doi: 10.1186/s40648-016-0051-5.
de Looze, M. P. et al. (2015) 'Exoskeletons for industrial application and their potential effects on physical work load', Ergonomics, 59(5), pp. 671–681. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2015.1081988.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Denoth, P. et al. (2020) 'A powered ankle foot orthosis based on shaft twisted string actuation to assist persons with foot-drop : a feasibility study', in ICNR2020 : 5th International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation, virtual, 13-16 October 2020.
Graf, E. S. et al. (2018) 'Basic functionality of a prototype wearable assistive soft exoskeleton for people with gait impairments : a case study', in PETRA '18 Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 202–207. doi: 10.1145/3197768.3197779.
Baten, C. T. M. et al. (2018) 'XoSoft connected monitor (XCM) unsupervised monitoring and feedback in soft exoskeletons of 3D kinematics, kinetics, behavioral context and control system status', in Proceedings of the WeRob2018 : Wearable Robotics. Challenges and Trends. Cham: Springer, pp. 391–395. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-01887-0_75.
Ortiz, J. et al. (2017) 'XoSoft : a vision for a soft modular lower limb exoskeleton', in González-Vargas, J. et al. (eds) Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends : Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Wearable Robotics, WeRob2016, October 18-21, 2016, Segovia, Spain. Cham: Springer, pp. 83–88. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_14.
Stadler, K. S. and Scherly, D. (2017) 'Exoskeletons in industry : designs and their potential', in 8th International Symposium on Automatic Control (AUTSYM 2017), Wismar, Germany, 21-22 September 2017. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3495.
Stadler, K. S. et al. (2016) 'Robo-Mate an exoskeleton for industrial use : concept and mechanical design', in Tokhi, M. O. and Virk, G. S. (eds) Advances in Cooperative Robotics : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CLAWAR 2016. London: World Scientific Publishing, pp. 806–813. doi: 10.1142/9789813149137_0094.
de Kruif, B. J. et al. (2016) 'Interaction modelling for wearable assistive devices', in PETRA '16 Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2910674.2935837.
Poland, J. and Stadler, K. S. (2014) 'Stochastic optimal planning of solar thermal power', in 2014 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA). IEEE, pp. 593–598. doi: 10.1109/CCA.2014.6981404.
Colotti, A. and Stadler, K. (2014) 'Magnetic cross-coupling effects on the performance of the synchronous reluctance machine', in 2014 16th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/EPE.2014.6910730.
Gupta, A. et al. (2013) 'A pragmatic approach for performance assessment of advanced process control', in Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CCA.2013.6662840.

Other publications

de Kruif, B. J. et al. (2017) 'Reflex response modelling of exoskeleton-user interaction', in Ibáñez J., J. et al. (eds) Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II : Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2016). Cham: Springer, pp. 1085–1089. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_176.
Stadler, K., Elspass, W. J. and van de Venn, H. W. (2014) 'Robo-Mate : exoskeleton to enhance industrial production', in Kozlowski, K., Tokhi, M. O., and Virk, G. S. (eds) Mobile Service Robotics : Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines. World Scientific Publishing, pp. 53–60.