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The mission of the Assistive Robotics Laboratory is to develop agile, versatile wearable robots to assist humans across daily activities. The overall research themes can be classified into the following aims:
- Human-in-the-Loop Control and Optimization Frameworks for Task-Invariant Assistance
- Development of User-Friendly Wearable Devices
- Experimetanl Validation and Biomechanics Study
NEWS
- 05/2026:
- Congrats to Dr. Miao Yu on successfully defending his dissertation.
- 10/2025:
- Dr. Lv received the Rising Stars of Mechanical Egninering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at the 2025 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) link
- 05/2025:
- Dr. Lv delivered a talk at the ICRA 2025 workshop titled “State of the Art in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: Exploring Specificity vs. Generalizability Across Users and Activities.” workshop link
- 01/2025:
- Our research is featured at Clemson World! story link
- Our research is featured at Clemson World! story link
- 11/2024:
- Our exoskeleton research is featured at the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences: interview link and Clemson News: article link
- 07/2024:
- Dr. Lv’s was awarded the Dean’s Professorship at the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences.
- 05/2024:
- Our paper entitled “Safety Augmentation for Volitional Human Locomotion via Lower-Limb Exoskeletons: A Case Study” was accepted to IEEE Control Systems Letters!
- 04/2024:
Dr. Lv was awarded the ME Excellence Award (Junior Rank Faculty)!
Our Creative Inquiry team presented at the 19th Annual Focus on Creative Inquiry Poster Forum!
- 03/2024:
Our lab receives the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation! Many thanks to NSF for supporting our research.
Our paper enetitiled “The Claw: An Avian-Inspired, Large Scale, Hybrid Rigid-Continuum Gripper” was accepted into the speicial issue “Intelligent Bionic Robots” of Robotics (MDPI) as cover article! This is a collobration work with Prof. Ian Walker at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University.
07/2023: Our paper entitled “A Two-Layer Human-in-the-Loop Optimization Framework for Customizing Lower-Limb Exoskeleton Assistance” was published at the invited session “Recent Advancement of Human Autonomy Interaction & Integration” of the 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA.
- 04/2023:
- Tapp Rhoads received the Carl Donner Nelson, Jr. Meomrial Award. Congrats Tapp.
- Dr. Lv was recognized as Faculty Scholar at the School of Health Research, Clemson University.
- Tapp Rhoads received the Carl Donner Nelson, Jr. Meomrial Award. Congrats Tapp.
- 05/2023: Congratulations to Dr. Therese Parr for successfully defending her dissertation.
- 12/2022: Our paper entitled “Task-Invariant Centroidal Momentum Shaping for Lower-Limb Exoskeletons” was published at the 61st Conference on Decision and Control.
- 04/2021: Dr. Lv receives the South Carolina Translational Research Improving Musculoskeletal Health (SC TRIMH) targeted junior faculty award.
- 01/2020: Dr. Lv joined the Mechanical Engineering department at Clemson University as an Assistant Professor.
Last Updated:
May 15, 2026