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Patrick Slade

Harvard University
Verified email at seas.harvard.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Sensing leg movement enhances wearable monitoring of energy expenditure

P Slade, MJ Kochenderfer, SL Delp… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of global mortality. Health organizations have
requested a tool to objectively measure physical activity. Respirometry and doubly labeled …

[HTML][HTML] Personalizing exoskeleton assistance while walking in the real world

P Slade, MJ Kochenderfer, SL Delp, SH Collins - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Personalized exoskeleton assistance provides users with the largest improvements in
walking speed 1 and energy economy 2 , 3 – 4 but requires lengthy tests under unnatural …

An open-source and wearable system for measuring 3D human motion in real-time

P Slade, A Habib, JL Hicks… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Analyzing human motion is essential for diagnosing movement disorders and
guiding rehabilitation for conditions like osteoarthritis, stroke, and Parkinson's disease. Optical …

Multimodal sensing and intuitive steering assistance improve navigation and mobility for people with impaired vision

P Slade, A Tambe, MJ Kochenderfer - Science robotics, 2021 - science.org
Globally, more than 250 million people have impaired vision and face challenges navigating
outside their homes, affecting their independence, mental health, and physical health. …

Stanford doggo: An open-source, quasi-direct-drive quadruped

…, A Schultz, N Ferrante, P Slade - … conference on robotics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents Stanford Doggo, a quasi-direct-drive quadruped capable of dynamic
locomotion. This robot matches or exceeds common performance metrics of state-of-the-art …

Tact: Design and performance of an open-source, affordable, myoelectric prosthetic hand

P Slade, A Akhtar, M Nguyen… - 2015 IEEE International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the Tact hand-an anthropomorphic, open-source, myoelectric prosthetic
hand that was designed for use by people with transradial amputations in developing …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid energy expenditure estimation for ankle assisted and inclined loaded walking

P Slade, R Troutman, MJ Kochenderfer… - … of neuroengineering and …, 2019 - Springer
Background Estimating energy expenditure with indirect calorimetry requires expensive
equipment and several minutes of data collection for each condition of interest. While several …

Design of a soft catheter for low-force and constrained surgery

P Slade, A Gruebele, Z Hammond… - 2017 IEEE/RSJ …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Surgeries involving interaction with soft tissue like the brain need to minimize shear and
normal forces that can cause tissue damage or hemorrhage. Other surgeries require the ability …

Passive mechanical skin stretch for multiple degree-of-freedom proprioception in a hand prosthesis

A Akhtar, M Nguyen, L Wan, B Boyce, P Slade… - … , Devices, Modeling, and …, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we present a passive linear skin stretch device that can provide proprioceptive
feedback for multiple degrees of freedom (DOF) in a prosthetic hand. In a 1-DOF virtual …

A low-cost, open-source, compliant hand for enabling sensorimotor control for people with transradial amputations

…, E Wu, J Sombeck, C Yim, P Slade… - 2016 38th Annual …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a low-cost, open-source prosthetic
hand that enables both motor control and sensory feedback for people with transradial …