Tobias Nef, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
202-319-4287 fax
nef@cua.edu
Education
B.S., Electrical Engineering, ETH Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999
M.S., Electrical Engineering, ETH Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2007
Biography
Tobias Nef’s research is in the field of robot-aided neurorehabilitation of the upper and lower extremities. He is particularly interested in the haptic interaction between the robot and the human and in the underlying robotic-control strategies. While he was with Robert Riener at ETH Zurich, he developed the arm therapy robot ARMin. His work has been awarded several prices, among them the Hans-Eggenberger foundation Award 2008.
Tobias Nef’s research is in the field of robot-aided neurorehabilitation of the upper and lower extremities. He is particularly interested in the haptic interaction between the robot and the human and in the underlying robotic-control strategies. While he was with Robert Riener at ETH Zurich, he developed the arm therapy robot ARMin. His work has been awarded several prices, among them the Hans-Eggenberger foundation Award 2008.
Representative Publications
T. Nef, ARMin-Multimodal Robot for the Movement Therapy of the Upper Extremities, dissertation accepted on the recommendation of Robert Riener and David Reinkensmeyer by the ETH Zurich, 2007.
T. Nef, R. Riener, Shoulder Actuation Mechanisms for Arm Rehabilitation Exoskeletons. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 19-22 October 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
T. Nef, M. Mihelj, R. Riener, ARMin-A Robot for Patient-Cooperative Arm Therapy, Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, 2007 Sep; 45(9):887-900.
T. Nef, ARMin-Multimodal Robot for the Movement Therapy of the Upper Extremities, dissertation accepted on the recommendation of Robert Riener and David Reinkensmeyer by the ETH Zurich, 2007.
T. Nef, R. Riener, Shoulder Actuation Mechanisms for Arm Rehabilitation Exoskeletons. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, 19-22 October 2008, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
T. Nef, M. Mihelj, R. Riener, ARMin-A Robot for Patient-Cooperative Arm Therapy, Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing, 2007 Sep; 45(9):887-900.
T. Nef, M. Mihelj, G. Kiefer, C. Perndl, R. Muller, R. Riener, ARMin - Exoskeleton for Arm Therapy in Stroke Patients, Proceedings of the IEEE 10th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, 13-15 June 2007, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, pp.68-74.
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Last reviewed: November 1, 2009
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