Vallery, Heike, Dr.

Curriculum Vitae

Heike Vallery was born 1979 in Duisburg, Germany. She studied Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and she received her PhD from the Technische Universität München.

During her PhD at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, 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.

From 2008 to 2011, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the SMS Lab at ETH Zürich. In July 2011, she joined Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR) as an assistant professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She also remains affiliated with the SMS Lab.

Her research interests are in the domain of robotic assistance for patients with motor disorders. In particular, she investigates cooperative design concepts for intelligent leg prostheses and robot-assisted locomotor therapy.

Research Projects

• Gait Rehabilitation
• Active Knee Prosthetics

Selected Publications

• C. Hollnagel; M. Brügger; H. Vallery; P. Wolf; V. Dietz; S. Kollias & Riener, R.
  Brain activity during stepping: a novel MRI-compatible device
  J Neurosci Methods, 2011, 201, 124-130
• F. Parietti; G. Baud-Bovy; E. Gatti; R. Riener; L. Guzzella & H. Vallery
  Series Viscoelastic Actuators Can Match Human Force Perception
  IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics , 2011, 16, 853-860
• A. Pennycott; D. Wyss; H. Vallery & R. Riener.
  Effects of Added Inertia and Body Weight Support on Lateral Balance Control During Walking
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) , 2011, 1 -6
• S. Pfeifer; M. Hardegger; H. Vallery; R. List; M. Foresti; R. Riener & E. J. Perreault.
  Model-Based Estimation of Active Knee Stiffness
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), 2011
• H. Vallery, R. Burgkart, C. Hartmann, J. Mitternacht, R. Riener, M. Buss
  Complementary limb motion estimation for the control of active knee prostheses
  Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering 2011 56:1 , 45-51
• J. von Zitzewitz, G. Rauter, H. Vallery, A. Morger, and R. Riener
  Forward kinematics of redundantly actuated, tendon-based robots
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.
• G. Rauter, J. von Zitzewitz, A. Duschau-Wicke, H. Vallery, and R. Riener
  A tendon-based parallel robot applied to motor learning in sports
  Proceedings of the IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Tokyo, Japan, 2010.
• S. Pfeifer, O. Çaldıran, H. Vallery, R. Riener, and A. Hernandez Arieta
  Displaying centre of pressure location by electrotactile stimulation using phantom sensation
  Proceedings of the 10th Vienna International Workshop on Functional Electrical Stimulation and 15th IFESS Annual Conference, 2010, pp. 71–73.
• H. Vallery, A. Duschau-Wicke, and R. Riener
  Hiding robot inertia using resonance
  Proceedings of the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.
• H. Vallery, M. Neumaier, and M. Buss
  Anti-Causal Identification of Hammerstein Models
  European Control Conference (ECC), 2009.
• 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, 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, 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, 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