Rachid Aissaoui, ing., Ph.D.
Professor, École de technologie supérieure, Associate Member, CRIR
Phone: 514 396-8800 # 7581
Fax: 514 396-8595
Email: [email protected]
Education
- Baccalauréat de l’enseignement supérieur, série Techniques mathématiques, Lycée technique les Palmiers, Algérie (1980);
- Ingéniorat d’état en électronique, Université des sciences et de la technologie, Algérie (1985);
- Diplôme des études approfondies, École nationale supérieure d’électronique et de radio-électricité de Grenoble, France (1986);
- Doctorat, Université Joseph-Fourrnier, Grenoble-I, France (1990).
Research interests
Pathological gait in persons suffering from gonarthrosis; posture and mobility in persons with a physical disability; biomechanical modelisation of movement and gestures; stability of sitting postures in children with a cerebral motor deficit.
Selected publications
Chénier, F., Aissaoui, R., Gauthier, C. & Gagnon, D.H. (2017). Wheelchair pushrim kinetics measurement: A method to cancel inaccuracies due to pushrim weight and wheel camber. Medical Engineering & Physics, 40, 75-86.
Lauzière, S., Miéville, C., Betschart, M., Duclos, C., Aissaoui, R. & Nadeau, S. (2016). A more symmetrical gait after split-belt treadmill walking increases the effort in paretic plantar flexors in people post-stroke. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 48(7), 576-582.
Chénier, F., Gagnon, D. H., Blouin, M. & Aissaoui, R. (2016). A simplified upper-body model to improve the external validity of wheelchair simulators. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 21(3), 1641-1649.
Lauzière, S., Miéville, C., Betschart, M., Aissaoui, R. & Nadeau, S. (2015). Plantarflexor weakness is a determinant of kinetic asymmetry during gait in post-stroke individuals walking with high levels of effort. Clinical Biomechanics (Bristol, Avon), 30(9), 946-952.
Gagnon, D. H., Babineau, A. C., Champagne, A., Desroches, G. & Aissaoui, R. (2015). Trunk and shoulder kinematic and kinetic and electromyographic adaptations to slope increase during motorized treadmill propulsion among manual wheelchair users with a spinal cord injury. BioMed Research International, 2015(ID 636319), 1-15.
Chénier, F., Bigras, P. & Aissaoui, R. (2015). A new dynamic model of the wheelchair propulsion on straight and curvilinear level-ground paths. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 18(10), 1031-1043.
Blouin, M., Lalumière, M., Gagnon, D.H., Chénier, F. & Aissaoui, R. (2015). Characterization of the immediate effect of a training session on a manual wheelchair simulator with haptic biofeedback: Towards more effective propulsion. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 23(1), 104-115.
Research orientation
Axis 2
Research topic
Thème 1 - The person, their entourage and the community