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Brendon Ortolano

2 accepted papers

2025

The Only Way Is Up: Active Knee Exoskeleton Reduces Muscular Effort in Quadriceps During Weighted Stair Ascent

RA-L 2025

Firefighters consistently rank stair ascent with gear, which can weigh over 35 kg, as their most demanding activity. Weighted stair climbing requires dynamic motions and large knee torques, which can cause exhaustion in the short term, and overuse injuries in the long term. An active knee exoskeleto

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2022

Perception Engine Using a Multi-Sensor Head to Enable High-level Humanoid Robot Behaviors

ICRA 2022poster

For achieving significant levels of autonomy, legged robot behaviors require perceptual awareness of both the terrain for traversal, as well as structures and objects in their surroundings for planning, obstacle avoidance, and high-level decision making. In this work, we present a perception engine…

Cited by 11SourceScholar