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Neville Hogan

Neville Hogan

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
USA
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
89
Citations
49208
World Ranking
119
National Ranking
62

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Rufus Oldenburger Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Neville Hogan is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to fields intersecting engineering and neuroscience. Their research primarily addresses topics in motor control, adaptation, and the integration of robotics with human physical interaction.

The main fields of study in which Hogan is active include:

  • Engineering
  • Neuroscience

Their subfields of study further specify their areas of focus as:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
  • Mechanical Engineering

The researcher's work spans several key topics such as:

  • Motor Control and Adaptation
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention
  • Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Action Observation and Synchronization

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Neville Hogan include:

  • Contact and Physical Interaction, 2021, Annual Review of Control Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Energy budgets for coordinate invariant robot control in physical human-robot interaction, 2021, The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Shaping Impedances to Comply With Constrained Task Dynamics, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • Preparing to move: Setting initial conditions to simplify interactions with complex objects, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Exploiting Redundancy to Facilitate Physical Interaction, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Federico Tessari
  • Dagmar Sternad
  • James Hermus
  • Johannes Lachner
  • Moses C. Nah

Publications by Neville Hogan have appeared in several venues repeatedly, such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Research Square (Research Square)

In 2009, Neville Hogan received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • The coordination of arm movements: an experimentally confirmed mathematical model.

    Tamar Flash;Neville Hogan

  • Impedance Control: An Approach to Manipulation: Part I—Theory

    Neville Hogan

  • Impedance Control: An Approach to Manipulation

    Neville Hogan

  • Robot-aided neurorehabilitation

    H.I. Krebs;N. Hogan;M.L. Aisen;B.T. Volpe

  • An organizing principle for a class of voluntary movements

    N Hogan

  • Neural, mechanical, and geometric factors subserving arm posture in humans

    FA Mussa-Ivaldi;N Hogan;E Bizzi

  • Adaptive control of mechanical impedance by coactivation of antagonist muscles

    N. Hogan

  • The mechanics of multi-joint posture and movement control

    Neville Hogan

  • Impedance Control: An Approach to Manipulation: Part II—Implementation

    Neville Hogan

  • Posture control and trajectory formation during arm movement

    E Bizzi;N Accornero;W Chapple;N Hogan

  • Robust control of dynamically interacting systems

    J. E. Colgate;N. Hogan

  • Rehabilitation Robotics: Performance-Based Progressive Robot-Assisted Therapy

    H. I. Krebs;J. J. Palazzolo;L. Dipietro;M. Ferraro

  • A novel approach to stroke rehabilitation Robot-aided sensorimotor stimulation

    B.T. Volpe;H.I. Krebs;N. Hogan;L. Edelstein

  • The Effect of Robot-Assisted Therapy and Rehabilitative Training on Motor Recovery Following Stroke

    M L Aisen;H I Krebs;N Hogan;F McDowell

  • Effects of robotic therapy on motor impairment and recovery in chronic stroke.

    Susan E. Fasoli;Hermano I. Krebs;Joel Stein;Walter R. Frontera

  • Does the nervous system use equilibrium-point control to guide single and multiple joint movements?

    E. Bizzi;N. Hogan;F. A. Mussa-Ivaldi;S. Giszter

  • Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Robot for Wrist Rehabilitation

    H.I. Krebs;B.T. Volpe;D. Williams;J. Celestino

  • Stable execution of contact tasks using impedance control

    N. Hogan

  • Interactive robotic therapist

    Neville Hogan;Hermano I. Krebs;Andre Sharon;Jain Charnnarong

  • Increasing Productivity and Quality of Care : Robot-aided Neuro Rehabilitation

    H I Krebs;B T Volpe;M L Aisen;N Hogan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce T. Volpe
Bruce T. Volpe Feinstein Institute for Medical Research
Dagmar Sternad
Dagmar Sternad Northeastern University
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi
Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi Northwestern University
Howard Poizner
Howard Poizner University of California, San Diego
Walter R. Frontera
Walter R. Frontera University of Puerto Rico
Tamar Flash
Tamar Flash Weizmann Institute of Science
Paul J. Christos
Paul J. Christos Cornell University

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