Bernadett Kiss

Supervisor: Dr. Alexander Badri-Spröwitz (Dynamic Locomotion Group) Project lead & principal developer for EcoWalker-1, EcoWalker-2, EcoWalker-3 bipedal humanoid robots: concept, design, fabrication, rapid prototyping, electronics, software integration and repeated debugging and iterations Built multi‑sensor measurement stack, integrated and synchronized measurement systems, developed Python code for experiments and data pipelines Supervised 3 students who built replica systems and wrote documentation Autho

Simulation and analysis of the effects of varying stiffness levels in ankle-foot orthoses using forward dynamics models, with validation against patient data, resulting in a first-author publication.

Simulation, mechanical design, and prototyping of a roller balancing device, subsequently deployed as an internal production tool.

I was working in the Motion Laboratory of the university. My tasks included organizing and accomplishing repeated balancing measurements on 11 people, and the detailed planning and realization of a project for building a static sailing simulator (hiking bench) with built-in force sensors and using motion capture.

I was a teaching assistant for the BSc subject Control Engineering. I worked on supplementary materials for the subject.

I worked in the Product development division, in the Pneumatic Laboratory. My tasks were independent measuring and reporting, device analysis (precision pressure regulators, electric switching valves, pressure switches), leakage measurements and air flow measurements.

My tasks were preparation of work procedures, kaizen related tasks and quality control.

Doctoral Advisor: Prof. Dr. Syn Schmitt Faculty 2: Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institute for Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems

Master’s thesis: ‘Predicting the effects of ankle-foot orthoses on the gait of patients with calf muscle weakness: A predictive forward dynamics simulation study’