W. Hong, A. Naseri, and H. Huang, “Toward Online Personalization of Continuous Impedance Control for Powered Knee Prostheses,” npj Robotics, 2024 (Under review)
M.R. Haque, W. Hong, V.V. Shetty, A. Dodson, V. Nalam, H. Huang, and X. Shen, “A Lightweight Robotic Lower-Limb Prosthesis with Unified Knee and Ankle Actuators,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024 (Under review)
W. Hong, N. Anil Kumar, S. Patrick, S. Moon, and P. Hur, "A Feasibility Study of Piecewise Phase Variable Based on Variable Toe-Off for the Powered Prosthesis Control: A Case Study," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2023
W. Hong, J. Lee, and P. Hur, "Piecewise Linear Labeling Method for Speed-Adaptability Enhancement in Human Gait Phase Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 2022
W. Hong, N. Anil Kumar, S. Patrick, H. Um, H. Kim, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "Empirical Validation of an Auxetic Structured Foot With the Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
W. Hong, J. Lee, and P. Hur, "Effect of Torso Kinematics on Gait Phase Estimation at Different Walking Speeds," Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022
S. Patrick, N. Anil Kumar, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Biomechanical Impacts of Toe Joint With Transfemoral Amputee Using a Powered Knee-Ankle Prosthesis," Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022
N. Anil Kumar, S. Patrick, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Control Framework for Sloped Walking with a Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis," Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022
H. Um, H. Kim, W. Hong, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "Design of 3D printable prosthetic foot to implement nonlinear stiffness behavior of human toe joint based on finite element analysis," Scientific Reports, 2021
J. Lee, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Continuous Gait Phase Estimation using LSTM for Robotic Transfemoral Prosthesis Across Walking Speeds," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, 2021
W. Hong, N. Anil Kumar, and P. Hur, "A Phase-Shifting Based Human Gait Phase Estimation for Powered Transfemoral Prostheses," IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2021
A. Mituniewicz, W. Hong, M.D. Lewek, and H. Huang, “Continuous Gait Phase Estimation from Translational Kinematics: Towards Implementation in Powered Ankle Prostheses,” IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob), Heidelberg, Germany, 2024
W. Hong, and H. Huang, “Towards Personalized Control for Powered Knee Prostheses: Continuous Impedance Functions and PCA-Based Tuning Method,” International Consortium for Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Singapore, 2023
H. Ryu, W. Hong, and P. Hur, “Towards Realistic Prosthetic Gait Simulations: Enhancing the Accuracy of OpenSim Analysis by Integrating the Transfemoral Prosthesis Model,” IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN), Busan, South Korea, 2023
W. Hong, N. Anil Kumar, S. Patrick, H. Um, H. Kim, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "Empirical Validation of an Auxetic Structured Foot With the Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis," IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics & Biomechatronics (BioRob), 2022
H. Kim, H. Um, W. Hong, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "Structural design for energy absorption during heel strike using the auxetic structure in the heel part of the prosthetic foot," International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2021
H. Um, H. Kim, W. Hong, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "3D-Printable Toe-joint Design of Prosthetic Foot," International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 2021
N. Anil Kumar, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Impedance Control of a Transfemoral Prosthesis on Sloped Terrain using Continuous and Nonlinear Impedance Parameters," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
N. Anil Kumar, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Impedance Control of a Transfemoral Prosthesis using Continuously Varying Ankle Impedances and Multiple Equilibria," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
W. Hong, V. Paredes, K. Chao, S. Patrick, and P. Hur, "Consolidated control framework to control a powered transfemoral prosthesis over inclined terrain conditions," 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
V. Paredes, W. Hong, S. Patrick, and P. Hur, "Upslope Walking with Transfemoral Prosthesis using Optimization based Spline Generation," 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016
W. Hong, N. Anil Kumar, and P. Hur, "Toe joint effect on ankle kinematics/kinetics under active control," 45th Annual Conference of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2021).
N. Anil Kumar, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "An Ankle Impedance Control Strategy for Downslope Walking with a Transfemoral Prosthesis," 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop - Best Poster Award
W. Hong, H. Um, H. Kim, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "Effects of material of the 3D printed foot on ankle kinematics/kinetics and toe joint bending during prosthetic walking," 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2020)
J. Lee, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Gait Phase Estimation of Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis using RNN," 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2020)
N. Anil Kumar, W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Impedance Control of the Knee Mechanism of a Transfemoral Prosthetic for Level Walking," 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2020)
H. Um, H. Kim, W. Hong, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "Structural behavior evaluation of prosthetic foot using the auxetic structure via finite element analysis," 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2020)
H. Kim, H. Um, W. Hong, H. Kim, and P. Hur, "3D-Printable Prosthetic Foot with Human Toe-Joint Property," 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2020)
P. R. Currin, J. Park, E. Kim, C. Lee, W. Hong, F.C.R. Miftajov, and P. Hur, "A preliminary study of a motion capture system using smartphones for the ankle joint analysis," 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2020)
W. Hong, K. Chao, and P. Hur, "The Effect of Inclination and Walking Speed on Foot Placement for Slope Walking," Joint Conference of International Society of Biomechanics (ISB 2019) and the 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2019)
W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Effect of Toe Stiffness on the Push-off and Joint Trajectories for the Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis: A Pilot Study," 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2018)
W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Effect of a Foot Pad on the Push-off and Joint Trajectories for the Powered Transfemoral Prosthesis: A Pilot Study," 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2018)
W. Hong, and P. Hur, "Transfemoral Prosthesis Control for Slope Walking with Principal Component Analysis," 41st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2017)
H.U. Yoon, L. Lytle, Y-T. Pan, N. Anil Kumar, W. Hong, D. McGowan, and P. Hur, "Identifying a Perceptual Mapping from Bidirectional Skin Stretch Patterns to Motor Space Perceptions: A Preliminary Study," 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics (ASB 2016)
BME Postdoc Fellow Award for Outstanding Research Achievements | BME, NC State University & UNC-Chapel Hill (Oct. 2024)
Best Paper Award - 1st Place (MAN) | 37th US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC 2024) (Aug. 2024)
Switzer Research Fellowship | National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR) (Sep. 2023)
Best Poster Award, 3rd Place (BME) | 36th US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (UKC 2023) (Aug. 2023)
Best Paper Award | 2022 Joint Conference of Korean Society of Biomechanics and Korean Society of Sport Biomechanics (Nov. 2022)
Byron Anderson ’54 Fellowship | ME, Texas A&M University (Aug. 2021)
Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant | ME, Texas A&M University (Mar. 2021)
Best Poster Award | 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop (Nov. 2020)
GenDepot Award | Korean-American Biomedical Scientist Symposium (KABMS) (Nov. 2017)
Electrical & Computer Engineering Graduate Student Travel Grant | ECE, Texas A&M University (Sep. 2016)
Graduate Program Enhancement Scholarship | ECE, Texas A&M University (Fall. 2015 - Spring. 2016)
Non-Res Competitive Scholarship | ECE, Texas A&M University (Fall. 2015 - Spring. 2016)
Honor Student Scholarship | Handong Global University (Fall. 2013)
Leadership Scholarship | Handong Global University (Fall. 2012)