Ronald Van Ham

5.7k citations
88 papers · 3.6k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 30
Topics
Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (70 papers)Muscle activation and electromyography studies (40 papers)Robotic Locomotion and Control (35 papers)
Partner nations
BelgiumNetherlandsItaly

In The Last Decade

Ronald Van Ham

85 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Compliant actuator designs200920262014202020092015200400600

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Ronald Van Ham
Comparison fields: 5 of 98
  • Biomedical Engineering 3.2k
  • Control and Systems Engineering 1.1k
  • Mechanical Engineering 558
  • Rehabilitation 316
  • Civil and Structural Engineering 103
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All Works

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The Role of Compliance in Robot Safety
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MACCEPA: The Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator
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Compliance Adaptation of Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for Reduced Energy Consumption by Exploiting the Natural Dynamics
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Locomotion Control Architecture for a Biped Actuated with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
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Design and Control of a 'Soft' 2-DOF Planar Pneumatic Manipulator
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MACCEPA: the Mechanically Adjustable Compliance and Controllable Equilibrium Position Actuator used in the ‘Controlled Passive Walking’ biped Veronica
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MACCEPA: the Actuator with Adaptable Compliance for Dynamic Walking Bipeds.
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LUCY, a Bipedal Walking Robot with Pneumatic Artificial Muscles
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Concept of combining adaptable passive behaviour with an active control structure using Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles for the bipedal robot LUCY
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Experimental results on the first movements of the pneumatic biped 'Lucy'
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Pressure control with on-off valves of Pleated Pneumatic Artificial Muscles in a modular one-dimensional rotational joint.
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A guide for carousel experiments on cohesive sediment
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About Ronald Van Ham

Ronald Van Ham is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Rehabilitation and Control and Systems Engineering, having authored 88 papers that have together received 3.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics (70 papers), Muscle activation and electromyography studies (40 papers) and Robotic Locomotion and Control (35 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biomedical Engineering (3.2k citations), Control and Systems Engineering (1.1k citations) and Rehabilitation (316 citations). Ronald Van Ham has collaborated with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght, Michaël Van Damme, Björn Verrelst, Thomas G. Sugar, Kevin W. Hollander, Pieter Beyl, Frank Daerden, Nikos G. Tsagarakis and Darwin G. Caldwell. Their work appears in journals such as Annals of Oncology, Chemical Engineering Science and The International Journal of Robotics Research.

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