dr. E.H.F. van Asseldonk (Edwin)

Fields of interest
Rehabilitation robotics for the lower extremities, human-machine interaction, dynamic balance control, locomotor adaptation, neuroplasticity

Biography
Edwin van Asseldonk has a master in Human Movement Sciences from the Free University in Amsterdam and a PhD in Biomechanical Engineering from the University of Twente. He currently holds the position of associate professor at the University of Twente. His research aims to improve the walking ability of patients with neurological diseases like stroke or spinal cord injury by using rehabilitation robotics (therapeutic and assistive) and/or non-invasive direct current stimulation. His current research concentrates on developing balance control strategies for wearable exoskeletons and investigating the human-machine interaction. He is principal investigator on different national (funded by STW and ZonMW) projects and co-principal investigator on international projects (funded by EU) on rehabilitation robotics and non-invasive stimulation. He has published over 100 papers and conference proceedings in the area of balance control during stance and walking, motor adaptation, lower limb rehabilitation robotics and non-invasive brain stimulation.

Medicine & Life Sciences

# Ankle
# Gait
# Robotics
# Spinal Cord Injuries
# Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
# Walking

Engineering & Materials Science

# Controllers
# Robotics

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Biomechatronics and Rehabilitation Technology (BRT)

Rampeltshammer, W. F. , Keemink, A., Sytsma, M. , Asseldonk, E. V. , & van der Kooij, H. (2023). Evaluation and Comparison of SEA Torque Controllers in a Unified Framework. Actuators, 12(8), [303]. https://doi.org/10.3390/act12080303

Afschrift, M. , van Asseldonk, E. , van Mierlo, M. , Bayón, C. , Keemink, A., D’Hondt, L. , van der Kooij, H., & De Groote, F. (2023). Assisting walking balance using a bio-inspired exoskeleton controller. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 20(1), [82]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-023-01205-9

Lora-Millán, J., Nabipour, M. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & Bayon, C. (2023). Advances on mechanical designs for assistive ankle-foot orthoses. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 11, [1188685]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2023.1188685

Ruiz-Rodriguez, A. , Hermens, H. , & Van Asseldonk, E. (2023). HEROES, Design of an Exergame for Balance Recovery of Stroke Patients for a Home Environment. In CHI 2023 - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems [499] Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3577037

van Mierlo, M. , Vlutters, M. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & van der Kooij, H. (2023). Sagittal-plane balance perturbations during very slow walking: Strategies for recovering linear and angular momentum. Journal of biomechanics, 152, [111580]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2023.111580

van Mierlo, M., Ormiston, J. , Vlutters, M. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & van der Kooij, H. (2023). Pelvis perturbations in various directions while standing in staggered stance elicit concurrent responses in both the sagittal and frontal plane. PLoS ONE, 18(4), [e0272245]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272245

van Mierlo, M. (Accepted/In press). Recovering linear and angular momentum during walking. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556149

Bayon, C., van Hoorn, M., Barrientos, A., Rocon, E., Trost, J. P. , & van Asseldonk, E. H. F. (2023). Perspectives on ankle-foot technology for improving gait performance of children with Cerebral Palsy in daily-life: requirements, needs and wishes. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 20, [44]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-023-01162-3

van 't Veld, R. C., Flux, E., van Oorschot, W. , Schouten, A. C. , van der Krogt, M. M. , van der Kooij, H., Vos-van der Hulst, M., Keijsers, N. L. W. , & van Asseldonk, E. H. F. (2023). Examining the role of intrinsic and reflexive contributions to ankle joint hyper-resistance treated with botulinum toxin-A. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 20(1), [19]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-023-01141-8

Zwijgers, E. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F., Vos-van der Hulst, M. , Geurts, A. C. H., & Keijsers, N. L. W. (2022). Impaired foot placement strategy during walking in people with incomplete spinal cord injury. Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation, 19(1), [134]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-022-01117-0

van Mierlo, M., Ormiston, J. , Vlutters, M. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & van der Kooij, H. (2022). Sagittal-plane motions accompany recovery from frontal-plane pelvis perturbations during staggered stance. Poster session presented at ISPGR World congress 2022, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

van Mierlo, M., Ormiston, J. , Vlutters, M. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & van der Kooij, H. (2022). Pelvis perturbations in various directions while standing in staggered stance elicit concurrent responses in both the sagittal and frontal plane. MedRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.18.22277773

Li, Y., Sena, A., Wang, Z., Xing, X., Babič, J. , van Asseldonk, E., & Burdet, E. (2022). A review on interaction control for contact robots through intent detection. Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 4(3), [032004]. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1091/ac8193

Afschrift, M. , Asseldonk, E. V. , Mierlo, M. V. , Bayon, C. , Keemink, A. , Kooij, H. V. D., & Groote, F. D. (2022). Assisting walking balance using a bio-inspired exoskeleton controller. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.19.512851

van Hoorn, M. , Hekman, E. E. G., Rocon, E. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & Bayon, C. (2022). Technical validation of a body-weight controlled clutch for ankle-foot orthoses of children with cerebral palsy. In XLIII Jornadas de Automática: libro de actas (pp. 165-170). Universidade da Coruna. https://ruc.udc.es/dspace/handle/2183/31374

Prieto, A. V. , Keemink, A. Q. L. , Asseldonk, E. H. F. V. , & Kooij, H. V. D. (2022). Feasible Wrench Set Computation for Legged Robots. IEEE Robotics and automation letters, 7(3), 7676 - 7683. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3184806

Ornelas Kobayashi, R. E., Gogeascoechea Hernandez, A. D. J., Tomy, L. J. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & Sartori, M. (2022). Neural data-driven model of spinal excitability changes induced by transcutaneous electrical stimulation in spinal cord injury subjects. In 2022 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR55369.2022.9896517

van Mierlo, M., Ambrosius, J. I. , Vlutters, M. , van Asseldonk, E. H. F. , & van der Kooij, H. (2022). Recovery from sagittal-plane whole body angular momentum perturbations during walking. Journal of biomechanics, 141, [111169]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111169

Hagedoorn, L., Zadravec, M., Olenšek, A. , van Asseldonk, E., & Matjačić, Z. (2022). The Existence of Shared Muscle Synergies Underlying Perturbed and Unperturbed Gait Depends on Walking Speed. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 12(4), [2135]. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12042135

van 't Veld, R. C. (2022). Integrated Spasticity Assessment and Treatment using Disentangled Joint Resistance. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, Biomechanical Engineering]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036553919

Supervised PhD thesis:

Robot aided gait training and assessment: development of support strategies and assessment methods for LOPES Bram Koopman (10 December 2014).
Design of a robot-assisted gait trainer: LOPES II. Johannes Hendricus Meuleman (13 November 2015).
Foot Placement in balance recovery - complex humans vs simple model (sumacum laude). Mark Vlutters (13 December 2017)
Trans-Spinal Direct Current Stimulation for the Modulation of the Lumbar Spinal Motor Networks. Alexander Kuck (24 January 2018).
Motor sequence learning in older adults. Jonathan S. Barnhoorn (18 April, 2018)
Haptic human-human interaction: motor learning & haptic communication. Niek Beckers (12 July 2019)
Towards postural balance control of exoskeletons. Amber R. Emmens (8 May 2020)
Towards personalized robot-assisted gait training. Simone S. Fricke (10 July 2020)
Integrated spasticity assessment and treatment using disentangled joint resistance. Ronald van 't Veld (25 May 2022)

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I am coordinator and lectures of the master courses Human Movement Control and Identitication of Human Physiological systems. Besides I supervise bachelor and master assignments of mainly the BME and ME program.

Besides I am track coordinator of the Biorobotics specialisation of the Biomedical Engineering Master program.

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Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Reflexioning: training the modulation of reflex activity in subjects with Spinal Cord Injury and Cerebral Palsy

This project is part of the STW program NeuroCIMT. The aim of the project is to develop a non-invasive integrated assessment and treatment approach to reduce spasticity and improve walking ability in patients with spinal cord injury and cerebral palsy.
inGAIT

Veni Cristina Bayón Calderón

With inGAIT project, we aim to go beyond the conventional methods of CP rehabilitation by investigating the expansion of novel technologies to daily-life. Our motivation for this research is to improve the quality of life of children with CP and similar motor disorders.
HEROES: Home-based ExeRgaming fOr Enhancing resistance to falls after Stroke

This project aims to develop the HEROES system, for home-based exergaming (exercise + gaming) to enhance resistance to falls in community-dwelling stroke survivors.
BenchBalance: A device to apply well defined perturbations for benchmarking balance capabilities of wearable robots

This project aims to develop a low-cost perturbation tool capable of measuring well-defined external perturbations manually provided by an experimenter to subjects wearing an exoskeleton. This tool will be used to benchmark balance capabilities of wearable robots.
Exo-aid for Spinal Cord Injury subjects

This project is part of the TTW program Wearable Robotics. The aim of this project is to develop a user-interface, control algorithms, and sensory substitution methods that will allow for fast, stable, and versatile locomotion of people with an SCI walking with an Exo-Aid.
Balance control in challenging conditions

This project is part of the TTW program Wearable Robotics. The aim of this project is to develop human-inspired control algorithms for exoskeletons to ensure balance is maintained in different challenging conditions during standing and walking.

ARTS Efficacy of Assist-As-Needed (AAN) Robotic gait Training in sub-acute Stroke survivors (ZonMW)
Evryon (EU)
BALANCE Balance Augmentation in Locomotion, through Anticipative, Natural and Cooperative control of Exoskeletons (EU)
AWARD: Assessment during Walking using A Robotic Device (STW)
NeurAS: NEURoControl- Assessment and Stimulation (ZonMW)
LOPES (PIDON)
Mindwalker (EU)
Priming the brain for robotic training (ZonMW VENI)
ReLOAD: Motor skill Learning in Older ADults: neurocognitive correlates, individual differences, and interventions to enable healthy aging (NWO)
Symbitron (EU)
Wearable Robots for Augmentation, Assistance or Substitution of Human Motor Functions (COST Action)

Our work on the development and use of the robotic gait trainer LOPES and the wearable exoskeleton Mindwalker has attracted considerable national and international attention in the popular media.

LOPES

Television

RTV oost nieuws, May 6, 2014: “Roessingh en Universiteit Twente ontwikkelen revalidatierobot Lopes”.

Omroep Gelderland nieuws, May 14, 2014: “Sint Maartenskliniek test nieuwe looprobot”.

BBC news, Sep 25, 2011: “Robo legs help stroke victim to walk”.

SBS6 Hart van Nederland, Oct 3, 2011: “Robot is doorbraak in revalidatie”.

Reuters, Jan 12, 2011: “Robot legs help stroke survivors to walk again”.

NTR-VPRO program Labyrinth, Apr 5, 2011: “De machinemens”.

Vara’s Nieuwslicht, Nov 19, 2008: “Robot benen helpen mensen sneller op de been”

Radio

BNR eyeopeners, May 12, 2014: “Een robot die je leert lopen”.

Newspapers, websites & magazines

LOPES II in De Ingenieur, Nov 2014: “Weer leren lopen: robot ontlast fysiotherapeut”

LOPES II in Bits & Chips, Sep 19, 2014: “Looprobot zet stap naar commerciële versie”

LOPES II in De Gelderlander, May 9, 2014, : “Robot leert patiënten in kliniek weer lopen”

LOPES II op RTLnieuws site, May 8, 2014: Looprobot Lopes II is een grote stap vooruit”

LOPES II op nu.nl, May 6, 2014: “Klinieken zetten nieuwe looprobot in voor revalidatie patiënten”

Lopes in The Consultant Journal, Oct 2011: “Dutch Rehabilitation robot helps patients to learn how to walk again”

MINDWALKER

Television

Euronews, Sep 30, 2013: “Exoskeletons on the March”.

Newspapers, websites & magazines

Mindwalker in de New Scientist, Jun 7, 2014: “Exoskelet laat verlamde mensen lopen”

Mindwalker in de Ingenieur, Sep 6, 2013: “Exoskelet dat het wel doet”.
Mindwalker in Horizon the EU Research and Innovation Magazine, May 30, 2014: “Walking again with an exoskeleton”

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https://www.utwente.nl/en/et/be/news/!/2015/6/221734/the-netherlands-and-the-united-states-strengthen-collaborative-research-into-neuro-rehabilitation

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e.h.f.vanasseldonk@utwente.nl

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University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W106
De Horst 2
7522LW Enschede
The Netherlands

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Reflexioning: training the modulation of reflex activity in subjects with Spinal Cord Injury and Cerebral Palsy

inGAIT

HEROES: Home-based ExeRgaming fOr Enhancing resistance to falls after Stroke

BenchBalance: A device to apply well defined perturbations for benchmarking balance capabilities of wearable robots

Exo-aid for Spinal Cord Injury subjects

Balance control in challenging conditions

Finished Projects

ARTS Efficacy of Assist-As-Needed (AAN) Robotic gait Training in sub-acute Stroke survivors (ZonMW)

Evryon (EU)

BALANCE Balance Augmentation in Locomotion, through Anticipative, Natural and Cooperative control of Exoskeletons (EU)

AWARD: Assessment during Walking using A Robotic Device (STW)

NeurAS: NEURoControl- Assessment and Stimulation (ZonMW)

LOPES (PIDON)

Mindwalker (EU)

Priming the brain for robotic training (ZonMW VENI)

ReLOAD: Motor skill Learning in Older ADults: neurocognitive correlates, individual differences, and interventions to enable healthy aging (NWO)

Symbitron (EU)

Wearable Robots for Augmentation, Assistance or Substitution of Human Motor Functions (COST Action)

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