Selected Publications:

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C. G. Welker, V. L. Chiu, A. S. Voloshina, S. H. Collins and A. M. Okamura, "Teleoperation of an Ankle-Foot Prosthesis With a Wrist Exoskeleton," in听IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 68, no. 5, pp. 1714-1725, May 2021, doi: 10.1109/TBME.2020.3046357.听

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C.S. Simpson, C.听G. Welker, S. D. Uhlrich, S.听M. Sketch, R.听W. Jackson, S.听L. Delp, S.听H. Collins, J.听C. Selinger, E.听W. Hawkes, "Connecting the legs with a spring improves human running economy," in Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 222, no. 17, Sept 2019, doi:听10.1242/jeb.202895.听

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C. G. Welker, T. K. Best and R. D. Gregg, "Improving Sit/Stand Loading Symmetry and Timing Through Unified Variable Impedance Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis," in听IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 31, pp. 4146-4155, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2023.3320692.

T. K. Best, C. G. Welker, E. J. Rouse and R. D. Gregg, "Data-Driven Variable Impedance Control of a Powered Knee鈥揂nkle Prosthesis for Adaptive Speed and Incline Walking," in听IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 2151-2169, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TRO.2022.3226887.

C. G. Welker, S. H. Collins and A. M. Okamura, "Human Perception of Wrist Flexion and Extension Torque During Upper and Lower Extremity Movement," in听IEEE Transactions on Haptics, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 741-752, 1 Oct.-Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TOH.2022.3219031.

S. Cheng, E. Bol铆var-Nieto, C. G. Welker and R. D. Gregg, "Modeling the Transitional Kinematics Between Variable-Incline Walking and Stair Climbing," in听IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 840-851, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2022.3185405.

E. Reznick, C. G. Welker and R. D. Gregg, "Predicting Individualized Joint Kinematics Over Continuous Variations of Walking, Running, and Stair Climbing," in听IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, vol. 3, pp. 211-217, 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJEMB.2023.3234431.

C. G. Welker, A. S. Voloshina, V. L. Chiu, and S. H. Collins. "Shortcomings of Human-in-the-loop Optimization of an Ankle-foot Prosthesis Emulator: a Case Series," in Royal Society Open Science, doi:听10.1098/rsos.202020.

Conference Proceedings:

C. G. Welker, T. K. Best and R. D. Gregg, "Data-Driven Variable Impedance Control of a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis for Sit, Stand, and Walk with Minimal Tuning,"听2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022, pp. 9660-9667, doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9982037.

C. G. Welker, S. H. Collins and A. M. Okamura, "Human Perception of Wrist Torque Magnitude During Upper and Lower Extremity Movement,"听2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2021, pp. 870-870, doi: 10.1109/WHC49131.2021.9517214.

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