Diana Wagner
Papers
10
Total Citations
1,170
H-Index
9
About
Diana Wagner is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of soft robotics and wearable assistive technology, with a career dedicated to improving mobility and motor function for individuals with physical impairments. Her work spans two primary domains: lower-limb exosuits for walking assistance and soft robotic gloves for hand rehabilitation, making her a central figure in the rapidly evolving field of fabric-based robotic systems. Wagner's most influential contribution, her 2017 study on soft exosuit assistance magnitude and metabolic cost (372 citations), established foundational design principles for wearable walking robots by rigorously quantifying the trade-off between assistive benefit and device mass. Her equally impactful research on soft robotic gloves for spinal cord injury patients (245 citations) demonstrated that fabric-based pneumatic systems could meaningfully restore hand strength and dexterity for individuals with tetraplegia. Complementing this, her investigations into textile mechanical anisotropy (212 citations) provided critical manufacturing insights that have shaped how soft actuators are designed and fabricated industry-wide. More recently, Wagner has extended her expertise to stroke rehabilitation and industrial shoulder assistance, reflecting a broad commitment to human-centered robotics. Across her portfolio, her work has accumulated nearly 1,200 citations, underscoring her significant and growing influence on assistive and rehabilitative robotics research.
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- 3Exploiting Textile Mechanical Anisotropy for Fabric-Based Pneumatic Actuators212 citations · 2018
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- 5Improving Grasp Function After Spinal Cord Injury With a Soft Robotic Glove78 citations · 2020
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