Vallery, Heike, Dr.

ETH Zürich Dr. Heike Vallery Inst.f. Robotik u. Intelligente Systeme TAN E 2 Tannenstrasse 1 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 42 70 E-Mail:

Curriculum Vitae

Heike Vallery was born 1979 in Duisburg, Germany. She studied Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and did her PhD at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at the Technische Universität München.

During her PhD, she investigated patient-cooperative control strategies for gait rehabilitation robots. In collaboration with the Laboratory of Biomechanical Engineering at the University of Twente, she evaluated these algorithms on the LOPES gait rehabilitation robot. In Munich, she also worked on the control of so-called Hybrid Neuroprostheses, which combine Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) with robotic assistance.

In May 2008, she joined the Sensory-Motor Systems Lab, where she continues her research on patient-cooperative gait rehabilitation and also focuses on robotic prostheses.

Research Projects

• Gait Rehabilitation
• Active Knee Prosthetics

Selected Publications

• H. Vallery, A. Duschau-Wicke, R. Riener
  Generalized Elasticities Improve Patient-Cooperative Control of Rehabilitation Robotss
  Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2009
• H. Vallery, A. Duschau-Wicke, R. Riener
  Optimized Passive Dynamics Improve Transparency of Haptic Devices
  Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009
• H. Vallery, R. Burgkart, J. Mitternacht, R. Riener, M. Buss
  Complementary Limb Motion Estimation for the Control of Active Knee Prostheses
  Proceedings of the 2009 European Conference on Technically Assisted Rehabilitation (TAR), 2009
• H. Vallery, E. van Asseldonk, M. Buss and H. van der Kooij
  Reference Trajectory Generation for Rehabilitation Robots: Complementary Limb Motion Estimation
  IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 17(1):23-30, 2009.
• H. Vallery, J. Veneman, E. van Asseldonk, R. Ekkelenkamp, M. Buss and H. van der Kooij
  Compliant Actuation of Rehabilitation Robots - Benefits and Limitations of Series Elastic Actuators
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 15(3): 60-69, 2008.
• H. Vallery, E. H. F. van Asseldonk, M. Buss, H. van der Kooij ,
  Complementary Limb Motion Estimation (CLME): Experimental Results
  Proceedings of Automed 2007, pp. 9-10, 2007
• H. Vallery, M. Buss
  Bewegungsintentionsschätzung auf Basis von Gelenkkoordination
  at-Automatisierungstechnik 55, no. 10 , pp. 503-510, 2007
• H. Vallery, R. Ekkelenkamp, H. van der Kooij, M. Buss
  Complementary Limb Motion Estimation based on Interjoint Coordination: Experimental Evaluation
  Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 2007
• H. Vallery, R. Ekkelenkamp, H. van der Kooij, M. Buss
  Passive and Accurate Torque Control of Series Elastic Actuators
  Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2007
• H. Vallery, M. Buss
  Complementary Limb Motion Estimation based on Interjoint Coordination using Principal Components Analysis
  Proceedings of the IEEE 2006 International Conference on Control Applications, Munich , 2006
• H. Vallery, M. Buss
  Toward a Hybrid Motor Neural Prosthesis for Gait Rehabilitation: A Project Description
  Journal of Automatic Control 15, pp. 19-22, 2005
• H. Vallery, T. Stützle, M. Buss, D. Abel
  Control of a Hybrid Motor Prosthesis for the Knee Joint
  Proceedings IFAC World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control , Prague, Czech Republic, 2005