TNSRE serves the community of biomedical engineers and clinical researchers who work at the intersection of neuroscience and physical medicine. We publish novel approaches and technologies for better understanding neural systems, human movement, and the relationships between them, with a focus on assistive devices that improve life for patients, for practicing clinicians, and for everyday use.
Ming Liu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA.
He currently serves as a Lab Manager with the UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. His research interests include design and control of active prostheses, human motion analysis, robots, nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear time series analysis, and image processing.
This paper aimed to develop and evaluate an environment- aware locomotion mode recognition system for volitional control of powered artificial legs. A portable terrain recognition (TR) module, consisting of an inertia measurement unit and a laser distance meter, was built...
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