André Seyfarth

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
163 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

André Seyfarth is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, André Seyfarth has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 20 papers in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation and 20 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in André Seyfarth's work include Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (106 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (106 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (80 papers). André Seyfarth is often cited by papers focused on Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (106 papers), Robotic Locomotion and Control (106 papers) and Muscle activation and electromyography studies (80 papers). André Seyfarth collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Iran and United States. André Seyfarth's co-authors include Hartmut Geyer, Reinhard Blickhan, Michael Günther, Maziar A. Sharbafi, Martin Grimmer, Jürgen Rummel, Susanne Lipfert, Hugh Herr, Sten Grimmer and Horst-Moritz Maus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

André Seyfarth

153 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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Compliant leg behaviour explains basic dynamics of walking and running

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
André Seyfarth Germany	36	4.6k	859	705	612	381	163	5.3k
Hartmut Geyer United States	25	3.6k 0.8×	595 0.7×	540 0.8×	494 0.8×	216 0.6×	65	4.0k
Steven H. Collins United States	41	7.4k 1.6×	409 0.5×	948 1.3×	1.0k 1.7×	241 0.6×	98	8.5k
Ambarish Goswami United States	35	5.5k 1.2×	510 0.6×	2.4k 3.5×	429 0.7×	86 0.2×	77	6.4k
Martijn Wisse Netherlands	29	3.8k 0.8×	705 0.8×	1.4k 2.0×	237 0.4×	50 0.1×	86	4.4k
Tad McGeer Canada	12	2.8k 0.6×	608 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	194 0.3×	57 0.1×	17	3.2k
A. L. Schwab Netherlands	28	1.0k 0.2×	235 0.3×	1.2k 1.7×	206 0.3×	285 0.7×	92	2.9k
Jerry Pratt United States	26	4.2k 0.9×	272 0.3×	1.5k 2.1×	212 0.3×	26 0.1×	57	4.6k
F.C.T. van der Helm Netherlands	33	2.0k 0.4×	137 0.2×	325 0.5×	532 0.9×	448 1.2×	103	3.7k
Aurelio Cappozzo Italy	43	5.2k 1.1×	440 0.5×	198 0.3×	2.9k 4.7×	2.7k 7.0×	126	9.8k
Katja Mombaur Germany	23	1.6k 0.4×	155 0.2×	670 1.0×	243 0.4×	72 0.2×	134	2.2k

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Mohseni, Omid, Andrew Berry, Christian Schumacher, et al.. (2025). Muscular responses to upper body mediolateral angular momentum perturbations during overground walking. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 13. 1509090–1509090. 1 indexed citations

Mohseni, Omid, et al.. (2025). Exploring the Virtual Pivot Point in Unilateral Transfemoral Amputee Locomotion: Implications for Prosthetic Development. 8254–8260.

Seyfarth, André, et al.. (2025). Towards Real-Time Personalized Control in Wearable Robotics: A Hierarchical Architecture for Lower-Limb Assistance. 5411–5418.

Grimmer, Martin, Omar Ben Dali, Omid Mohseni, et al.. (2024). 3D-Printed Piezoelectric PLA-Based Insole for Event Detection in Gait Analysis. IEEE Sensors Journal. 24(16). 26472–26486. 16 indexed citations

Mohseni, Omid, et al.. (2024). Design of Low-Cost Modular Bio-Inspired Electric–Pneumatic Actuator (EPA)-Driven Legged Robots. Biomimetics. 9(3). 164–164.

Penacchio, Olivier, et al.. (2024). Walking on Virtual Surface Patterns Leads to Changed Control Strategies. Sensors. 24(16). 5242–5242. 1 indexed citations

Mohseni, Omid, et al.. (2024). Exploring the control of whole-body angular momentum in young and elderly based on the virtual pivot point concept. Royal Society Open Science. 11(9). 240273–240273. 3 indexed citations

Mohseni, Omid, Omar Ben Dali, Martin Grimmer, et al.. (2024). Wearable Ferroelectret Sensors for Muscle Activity Measurements. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 1–4. 3 indexed citations

Seyfarth, André, et al.. (2023). Biomechanical models in the lower-limb exoskeletons development: A review. 1 indexed citations

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Seyfarth, André, Guoping Zhao, & Henrik Jörntell. (2022). Whole Body Coordination for Self-Assistance in Locomotion. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 16. 883641–883641. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Guoping, et al.. (2020). Bio-inspired neuromuscular reflex based hopping controller for a segmented robotic leg. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 15(2). 26007–26007. 14 indexed citations

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Seyfarth, André & Christian Schumacher. (2018). Teaching locomotion biomechanics: from concepts to applications. European Journal of Physics. 40(2). 24004–24004. 1 indexed citations

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Sharbafi, Maziar A., Matjaž Zadravec, Zlatko Matjačić, & André Seyfarth. (2018). A 3D Template Model for Healthy and Impaired Walking. 1218–1225. 8 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Christian & André Seyfarth. (2017). Sensor-Motor Maps for Describing Linear Reflex Composition in Hopping. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. 11. 108–108. 19 indexed citations

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Sharbafi, Maziar A., André Seyfarth, & Guoping Zhao. (2017). Locomotor Sub-functions for Control of Assistive Wearable Robots. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 11. 44–44. 10 indexed citations

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Sharbafi, Maziar A., et al.. (2016). A new biarticular actuator design facilitates control of leg function in BioBiped3. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 11(4). 46003–46003. 63 indexed citations

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Haeufle, Daniel F. B., Sten Grimmer, Karl Th. Kalveram, & André Seyfarth. (2012). Integration of intrinsic muscle properties, feed-forward and feedback signals for generating and stabilizing hopping. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 9(72). 1458–1469. 33 indexed citations

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Blum, Yvonne, Aleksandra V. Birn‐Jeffery, Monica A. Daley, & André Seyfarth. (2011). Does a crouched leg posture enhance running stability and robustness?. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 281(1). 97–106. 41 indexed citations

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Stryk, Oskar von, et al.. (2010). Towards Human-Like Bipedal Locomotion with Three-Segmented Elastic Legs. TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt). 1–8. 2 indexed citations

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Iida, Fumiya, et al.. (2006). One-legged locomotion with a compliant passive joint. Cambridge University Engineering Department Publications Database. 3(4). 566–573. 6 indexed citations

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