Prof. Dr. Konrad Stadler

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Stadler, K. (2013) 'Exoskeletons : von der akademischen Vision zur industriellen Anwendung', in Internationales Forum Mechatronik 2013, Winterthur, 2013.

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