Dr. Emel Demircan
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Californa State University, Long Beach, where I run the Human Performance and Robotics Laboratory. I hold a joint appointement with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
My research is centered on techniques for understanding how motor control dictates natual human movement, multi-body dynamics and control, musculoskeletal modeling, optimization and deep learning in biomechanics. The cross-disciplinary work is motivated by a range of applications, including rehabilitation and assistive robotics, cyber-physical systems, human augmentation, and sports biomechanics. [bio, resume] Schedule a meeting with Dr. Demircan
Recent NEWS
- Dr. Demircan will be hosting a Human Performance Workshop at ICAR 2019 ICAR 2019
- New Publication: "Understanding Human Perception for the Development of A Portable Vibrotactile Haptic Suit" submitted to Frontiers In Neurorobotics.
- Dr. Demircan presented the latest results on "Smart Robotic Prostheses using Deep Learning and Musculoskeletal Modeling" at ISER'18.
- Chinese mentees successfully completed their six months stay and presented their final projects.
- Kunj successfully submitted his Master's Thesis! Congratulations Kunj!
- Dipti's research paper gets accepted at International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) 2018! Congratulations Dipti!
- Dr. Demircan, Joaquin, Elliot and John will be traveling to Tokyo, Japan for research and collaboration meetings
- Dr. Demircan received the BUILD SMALL-EQUIPMENT Grant
- Andre successfully submitted his Honor's Thesis! Congratulations Andre!
- Dipti successfully defended her Master's Thesis! Congratulations Dipti!
- Professor Demircan introduces a new graduate class for Fall 2017!: MAE590: Experimental Robotics
- Joaquin was featured in CSULB Commencement 2017
- HPRL exhibited at the 2nd SoCal Robotics Symposium
- Kunj received the ORSP Summer Student award! Congratulations Kunj!
- HPRL exhibited at the 2nd TEDx CSULB
- Dr. Demircan received the NSF CRII award! (link to the award information)
- Dr. Demircan is the Guest Editor of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal: Special Issue on Human Movement Understanding in Robotics (2018)
- Dr. Demircan received the NSF MRI award! (link to the award information)
- Dr. Demircan received the NIH BUILD award!
-HPRL organized a full-day workshop on "Human Performance and Robotics" at Humanoids 2016, in collaboration with Stanford University. Here is the workshop link.
- HPRL organized IROS 2016 Human Movement Understanding and Robotics Workshop: Click here
- HPRL was featured in Quest Magazine: Click here
- HRPL sets up five motion capture cameras
- Emel, Mat, and Jaime visit Stanford University to work on Simulation of the JACO arm
- Professor Demircan received the CSULB ORSP Grant
- Professor Demircan received the prestigious CSULB Alumni Grant
Recent Publications
Note: * Asterisk indicates corresponding author. Underline indicates graduate students advised. †Dagger indicates undergraduate students advised.
E. Demircan*, E. Recinos, J. R. Abella, H-L. Teng, W. Wu, and I-H Khoo.
Understanding Human Perception for the Development of A Portable Vibrotactile Haptic Suit
[Frontiers in Neurorobotics 2019]
E. Demircan*, H-L. Teng, E. Recinos, J. R. Abella, I-H Khoo, and W. Wu.
Subject Perceived Haptic Feedback during Different Mode and Number of Motors
International Society of Biomechanics/American Society of Biomechanics [ISB/ASB 2019]
E. Demircan*, E. Recinos, J. R. Abella, I-H Khoo, H-L. Teng, and W. Wu.
Perception Accuracy of Vibrotactile Feedback during Locomotion
IEEE UR 2019 [paper] & SoCal Robotics Symposium 2019 [invited talk]
E. Recinos*, M. Henry, and E. Demircan
A Virtual Reality Environment with Haptic Feedback for Psychological Rehabilitation for Soccer Athletes
IEEE UR 2019 [paper] & SoCal Robotics Symposium 2019 [poster]
J. R. Abella* and E. Demircan
A Multi-body Simulation Framework for Live Motion Tracking and Analysis within the Unity Environment
IEEE UR 2019 [paper] & SoCal Robotics Symposium 2019 [poster]
D. Chaudhari, K. Bhagat, and E. Demircan*.
Understanding and Transfer of Human Skills in Robotics using Deep Learning and Musculoskeletal Modeling
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, ISER 2018
E. Demircan*, Denny Oetomo, Vincent de Sapio, Jaeuheung Park, and Oussama Khatib (eds.).
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue: Human Movement Understanding in Robotics (to appear in 2019)
E. Demircan*, Stephanie Yung, †Mathew Choi, †Jon Baschshi, Brian Nguyen, Javier Rodriguez.
Operational Space Analysis of Human Muscular Effort in Robot Assisted Reaching Tasks.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Issue: Human Movement Understanding in Robotics (in review)
E. Demircan*.
Constraint Consistent, Task-Based Musculoskeletal Control Framework for Human Motion Synthesis.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience (in review).
E. Lashgari* and E. Demircan.
Electromyography Pattern Classification with Laplacian Eigenmaps in Human Running.
International Journal of Electrical, Computer, Energetic, Electronic and Communication Engineering, 11(4), pp:383-388, 2017.
Research
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Integrating Cardiovascular Activity in Stroke Rehabilitation Therapy
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Virtual Environment for Robotic Rehabilitation and Human Performance Improvement
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Real-time Dynamic Interface for Human-Machine Interaction
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Task-Level Control & Simulation of Robotic Systems
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Creation & Dissemination of Educational Materials in Robotics & Human Biomechanics
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Operational Space Analysis of Human Motion
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Neural Networks for Robotic Rehabilitation
