Invited Seminars

Computational and robotic rehabilitation treatments based on biomechanics
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at II Semana da Bioengenharia, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, March 3, 2016.

Dynamic analysis of human motion: clinical and sport applications
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at XXXVIII Congreso de la Sociedad Ibérica de Biomecánica y Biomateriales, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, November 6, 2015.

Design of robotic orthoses for gait assistance in SCI subjects based on multibody modelling and simulation
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, May 5, 2015.

Design of robotic orthoses for gait assistance in SCI subjects based on multibody modelling and simulation
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Institute for Mechatronic Systems in Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, February 11, 2015.

Development of assistive devices for injured subjects based on motion analysis and simulation
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Institute of Neurosciences, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, January 22, 2015.

Design and control of patient-tailored active orthoses for SCI subjects based on human gait dynamics
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Institute of Neurorehabilitation Systems, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, January 14, 2015.

Optimization and muscle synergy approaches for studying muscle redundancy during walking
Gil Serrancolí at Institute of Neurorehabilitation Systems, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, January 14, 2015.

Patient-tailored active knee-ankle-foot orthosis to assist the gait of spinal cord injured subjects
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at TECHealth Workshop UPC, MIHealth Forum, Barcelona, Spain, May 22, 2014.

Biomecánica del movimiento humano: Análisis computacional de la marcha humana
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Master’s Degree in Mechatronics Engineering, Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón, Spain, February 3, 2014.

Application of multibody dynamics techniques to human gait analysis and active orthosis design
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Montefiore Institute, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, October 11, 2013.

Application of multibody dynamics techniques to human gait analysis and active orthosis design
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, May 28, 2013.

Spinal cord injuries: innovative orthosis for elderly people
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Inno4ageing, Fundación Parc de Salut, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain, December 13, 2012.

Desenvolupament d’una ortesi activa per assistir la marxa de lesionats medul·lars incomplets
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at III Jornades en TIC i Salut, Parc Científic i Tecnològic, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain, June 7, 2012.

Simulation and design of an active orthosis for an incomplete spinal cord injured subject
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 13, 2011.

Una experiència de recerca al Canadà
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Societat Catalana de Tecnologia, Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), Barcelona, Spain, May 8, 2009.
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Localización dinámica de robots móviles basada en filtrado de Kalman y triangulación
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Master’s Degree in Computational and Applied Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, November 13, 2008.

Mecánica de sistemas multicuerpo: análisis de la silla de ruedas triesférica y dinámica de la marcha de sistemas bípedos
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Master’s Degree in Computational and Applied Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, November 12, 2008.

Consistent triangulation for mobile robot localization using discontinuous angular measurements
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, July 29, 2008.

Dynamic mobile robot positioning from angular measurements using a two-step algorithm based on Kalman filtering and triangulation
Josep M. Font-Llagunes at Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, June 7, 2007.

Organized Seminars

Life-support robot and smart hospital to enrich super-eldery society
Kazuhiko Terashima | System and Control Laboratory, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
October 14, 2016

Assessment of faults in elastic actuation and feature extraction for a position sensor and stiffness fault
Gernot Perner | Institute for Mechatronic Systems in Mechanical Engineering, TU Darmstadt, Germany
September 6, 2016

Aplicació de la biomecànica a l’esport
Ventura Ferrer-Roca | High Performance Sports Centre of Catalonia (CAR), Sant Cugat, Spain
May 9, 2016

Effect of upper extremities in standing posture and gait in children with and without bilateral spastic cerebral palsy
Albert Puig-Diví | Universitat de Girona, Spain
May 11, 2015

The Flextension A-Gear Project – Development of an adaptive arm support for patients with muscular weakness
Joan Lobo-Prat | Department of Biomechanical Engineering, University of Twente, Netherlands
July 15, 2014

Contributing to the 21st era of personalized medicine: in silico integration of biomechanical and biophysical models to explore musculoskeletal diseases
Jérôme Noailly | Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona, Spain
November 22, 2013

Image-based musculoskeletal modelling
Ludovic Humbert | Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Galgo Medical SL, Barcelona, Spain
November 22, 2013

Aplicació de la biomecànica a l’esport
Ventura Ferrer-Roca | High Performance Sports Centre of Catalonia (CAR), Sant Cugat, Spain
November 19, 2012
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Imaging the biomechanical properties of tissues: from bench to bedside
Ventura Ferrer-Roca | Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, USA
February 22, 2012
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Clinical applications of biomechanics
Rosa M. Angulo-Barroso | Institut Nacional d’Educació Física de Catalunya (INEFC), Barcelona, Spain
November 25, 2011
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Biomechanics applied to character animation
Antoni Susín, Xavier Lligadas | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Labsid SL, Barcelona, Spain
November 26, 2010
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Analytical formulations in Lagrangian dynamics: theoretical aspects and applications to interactions with virtual and physical environments
József Kövecses | Applied Dynamics Group, McGill University, Canada
July 6, 2010
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Introducción a la dinámica de sistemas multicuerpo y aplicaciones
Javier Cuadrado | Laboratory of Mechanical Engineering, University of La Coruña, Spain
November 27, 2009
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Tratamiento de señales cinemáticas y de masas de tejido blando en el análisis dinámico inverso de modelos biomecánicos
Francisco Javier Alonso | Mechanical Engineering Group, University of Extremadura, Spain
November 27, 2009
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Estudio computacional del flujo sanguíneo en una representación realista de la aorta del conejo
Ana M. Plata García | Imperial College London, UK
October 5, 2009