Christopher Arellano, PhD

I have a broad interest in understanding the biomechanics, energetics, and balance of human and animal locomotion. Current projects focus on three main areas:

• Stability and Muscle-Tendon Mechanics: understand how the intrinsic properties of muscle and tendon contribute to stability in response to perturbations, with implications for the design of biologically inspired actuators.
• Self-Assistive Devices and Gait Rehabilitation: engineer and test devices that exploit the neural coupling behavior of the arms and legs during walking, with implications for improving rehabilitation gait training strategies for individuals with movement and balance disorders.
• Human Performance: advance our understanding of locomotion biomechanics and energetics and apply these insights to improve performance in the context of athletics, space-flight, elderly, etc.