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Mo Rastgaar

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2008
Muscle activation and electromyography studiesProsthetics and Rehabilitation RoboticsBalance, Gait, and Falls PreventionAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsTeaching and Learning Programming

Publications

93

Citations

852

Est. group size

~10

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2008

Research summary
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Mo Rastgaar works on wearable and robotic systems that interact with the human body and the environment, including prosthetic limbs, exoskeleton-like devices, and gait/balance analysis using sensors and machine learning. A parallel line of work involves autonomous vehicles, especially coordination between drones (UAVs), boats (USVs), and underwater vehicles (AUVs). Prospective students would likely engage with hardware prototyping (sensors, 3D-printed electrodes, robotic joints) alongside data-driven modeling and control algorithms.

Prosthetics and rehabilitation roboticsGait, balance, and joint biomechanicsWearable sensors and electromyographyMulti-robot systems (UAV/USV/AUV) and controlMachine learning for biomedical and robotic applications

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade without a clear upward or downward trend, averaging about 5 papers per year over the last 5 years, with a notable dip in 2019 and 2021 and a rebound in 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.0/year recently
2017: 8 publications172018: 9 publications9182019: 2 publications192020: 9 publications9202021: 3 publications212022: 7 publications222023: 4 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 7 publications252026: 2 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • IEEE Access×4
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×4
  • Journal of Medical Devices×3
  • Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics×2
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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