Prof. Dr. Konrad Stadler

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Control Engineering & Advanced Control
Technikumstrasse 9
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 78 27
konrad.stadler@zhaw.ch

Projects

XoSoft – soft modular biomimetic exoskeleton to assist people with mobility impairments / Co-project leader / abgeschlossen
Robo-Mate – Intelligent exoskeleton based on human-robot interaction for manipulation of heavy goods in Europe’s factories of the future / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Di Natali, Christian; Sadeghi, Ali; Mondini, Alessio; Bottenberg, Eliza; Hartigan, Bernard; De Eyto, Adam; O'Sullivan, Leonard; Rocon, Eduardo; Stadler, Konrad; Mazzolai, Barbara; Caldwell, Darwin G.; Ortiz, Jesús,

2020.

Pneumatic quasi-passive actuation for soft assistive lower limbs exoskeleton.

Frontiers in Neurorobotics.

14(31).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2020.00031
Di Natali, Christian; Poliero, Tommaso; Sposito, Matteo; Graf, Eveline; Bauer, Christoph; Pauli, Carole; Bottenberg, Eliza; De Eyto, Adam; O’Sullivan, Leonard; Hidalgo, Andrés F.; Scherly, Daniel; Stadler, Konrad S.; Caldwell, Darwin G.; Ortiz, Jesús,

2019.

Design and evaluation of a soft assistive lower limb exoskeleton.

Robotica.

37(12), pp. 2014-2034.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263574719000067
Huysamen, Kirsten; Bosch, Tim; de Looze, Michiel; Stadler, Konrad S.; Graf, Eveline; O'Sullivan, Leonard W.,

2018.

Evaluation of a passive exoskeleton for static upper limb activities.

Applied Ergonomics.

70, pp. 148-155.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2018.02.009
de Kruif, Bas J.; Schmidhauser, Emilio; Stadler, Konrad S.; O'Sullivan, Leonard W.,

2017.

Simulation architecture for modelling interaction between user and elbow-articulated exoskeleton.

Journal of Bionic Engineering.

14(4), pp. 706-715.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-6529(16)60437-7
Altenburger, Ruprecht; Scherly, Daniel; Stadler, Konrad S.,

2016.

Design of a passive, iso-elastic upper limb exoskeleton for gravity compensation.

ROBOMECH Journal.

3(12).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40648-016-0051-5
de Looze, Michiel P.; Bosch, Tim; Krause, Frank; Stadler, Konrad S.; O’Sullivan, Leonard W.,

2015.

Exoskeletons for industrial application and their potential effects on physical work load.

Ergonomics.

59(5), pp. 671-681.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2015.1081988

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Denoth, Pedrin; Geitner, Pascal; Krähenbühl, Lukas; Graf, Eveline; Stadler, Konrad,

2020.

A powered ankle foot orthosis based on shaft twisted string actuation to assist persons with foot-drop : a feasibility study [poster].

In:

ICNR2020 : 5th International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation, virtual, 13-16 October 2020.
Baten, Chris T. M.; de Vries, Wiebe; Schaake, Leendert; Witteveen, Juryt; Scherly, Daniel; Stadler, Konrad; Sanchez, Andres Hidalgo; Rocon, Eduardo; Plass-Oude Bos, Danny; Linssen, Jeroen,

2018.

XoSoft connected monitor (XCM) unsupervised monitoring and feedback in soft exoskeletons of 3D kinematics, kinetics, behavioral context and control system status [paper].

In:

4th International Symposium on Wearable Robotics, WeRob2018, Pisa, (Italy), 16-20 October 2018.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 391-395.

Biosystems & Biorobotics.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01887-0_75
Graf, Eveline S.; Pauli, Carole; Erkens, Laura; Brinks, Ger; O'Sullivan, Leonard; Wirz, Markus; Stadler, Konrad S.; Ortiz, Jesús; Bauer, Christoph M.; Power, Valerie; de Eyto, Adam; Bottenberg, Eliza; Poliero, Tommaso; Sposito, Matteo; Scherly, Daniel; Henke, René,

2018.

Basic functionality of a prototype wearable assistive soft exoskeleton for people with gait impairments : a case study [paper].

In:

PETRA '18 Proceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference.

Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA) Conference, Corfu, Greece, 26-29 June 2018.

New York:

Association for Computing Machinery.

pp. 202-207.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3197768.3197779
Stadler, Konrad S.; Scherly, Daniel,

2017.

Exoskeletons in industry : designs and their potential [paper].

In:

8th International Symposium on Automatic Control (AUTSYM 2017), Wismar, Germany, 21-22 September 2017.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3495
Ortiz, Jesus; Rocon, Eduardo; Power, Valerie; de Eyto, Adam; O’Sullivan, Leonard; Wirz, Markus; Bauer, Christoph; Schülein, Samuel; Stadler, Konrad S.; Mazzolai, Barbara; Teeuw, Wouter B.; Baten, Chris; Nikamp, Corien; Buurke, Jaap; Thorsteinsson, Freygardur; Müller, Jeanette,

2017.

XoSoft : a vision for a soft modular lower limb exoskeleton [paper].

In:

González-Vargas, J.; Ibáñez, J.; Contreras-Vidal, J.; van der Kooij, H.; Pons, J., eds.,

Wearable Robotics: Challenges and Trends : Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Wearable Robotics, WeRob2016, October 18-21, 2016, Segovia, Spain.

2nd International Symposium on Wearable Robotics, WeRob2016, Segovia, 18-21 October 2016.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 83-88.

Biosystems & Biorobotics ; 16.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46532-6_14
de Kruif, Bas J.; O'Sullivan, Leonard; Schmidhauser, Emilio; Stadler, Konrad S.,

2016.

Interaction modelling for wearable assistive devices [paper].

In:

PETRA '16 Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.

9th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Corfu, Greece, 29 June - 1 July 2016.

Association for Computing Machinery.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/2910674.2935837
Stadler, Konrad S.; Altenburger, Ruprecht; Schmidhauser, Emilio; Scherly, Daniel; Ortiz, J.; Toxiri, S.; Mateos, L.; Masood, J.,

2016.

Robo-Mate an exoskeleton for industrial use : concept and mechanical design [paper].

In:

Tokhi, M. O.; Virk, G. S., eds.,

Advances in Cooperative Robotics : Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CLAWAR 2016.

19th International Conference on CLAWAR, London, 12-14 September 2016.

London:

World Scientific.

pp. 806-813.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813149137_0094
Colotti, Alberto; Stadler, Konrad,

2014.

Magnetic cross-coupling effects on the performance of the synchronous reluctance machine [paper].

In:

2014 16th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.

16th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'14-ECCE Europe), Lappeenranta, Finland, 26-28 August 2014.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/EPE.2014.6910730
Poland, Jan; Stadler, Konrad S.,

2014.

Stochastic optimal planning of solar thermal power [paper].

In:

2014 IEEE Conference on Control Applications (CCA).

The 2014 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Antibes, France, 8-10 October 2014.

IEEE.

pp. 593-598.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2014.6981404
Gupta, Arun; Mathur, Tarun; Stadler, Konrad; Gallestey, Eduardo,

2013.

A pragmatic approach for performance assessment of advanced process control [paper].

In:

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control.

2013 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, Hyderabad, 28-30 August 2013.

IEEE.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/CCA.2013.6662840

Other publications

de Kruif, Bas J.; Schmidhauser, Emilio; Stadler, Konrad S.; O’Sullivan, Leonard,

2017.

Reflex response modelling of exoskeleton-user interaction [paper].

In:

Ibáñez J., J.; González-Vargas, J.; Azorín, J.; Akay, M.; Pons, J., eds.,

Converging Clinical and Engineering Research on Neurorehabilitation II : Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2016).

3rd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2016), Segovia, Spain, 18-21 October 2016.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 1085-1089.

Biosystems & Biorobotics ; 15.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46669-9_176
Stadler, Konrad; Elspass, Wilfried J.; van de Venn, Hans Wernher,

2014.

Robo-Mate : exoskeleton to enhance industrial production [paper].

In:

Kozlowski, Krzysztof; Tokhi, Mohammad O.; Virk, Gurvinder 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, Konrad,

2013.

Exoskeletons : von der akademischen Vision zur industriellen Anwendung.

In:

Internationales Forum Mechatronik 2013, Winterthur, 2013.

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