Cybathlon Challenge: Task Control & User Experiments

What it is about

In this lab you develop a lightweight, portable, and intelligent prosthesis for the upper extremities. You work on advanced model-based and AI-supported control approaches, develop novel user task control methods, and conduct training sessions as well as validation tests in the lab and in the field with a human user.

What you will be able to do

• Object recognition with OpenCV, Caffe or PCL
• EMG signal classification (SVM or neural networks)
• Kinematic and dynamic modeling in MATLAB/Simulink (Newton-Euler, Lagrange)
• Design and implementation of advanced model-based controls (e.g., impedance control)
• Programming intuitive user control (task control)
• Integration of mechatronic components into a functioning prosthesis system
• Team planning and collaborative execution of an engineering project

What the module consists of

• Labor / ProjektDevelopment of the prototype of an intelligent mechatronic prosthesis; supervision and execution of tests
• EinführungskurseConveying fundamental content and introduction to the topics
• Selbständiges individuelles ArbeitenIndependent handling of tasks and development part
• GruppenarbeitCooperative project work including supervised and unsupervised lab time

Teaching method

• EinführungskursePreparation for the laboratory and project tasks
• Selbständiges individuelles ArbeitenDeepening and implementation of individual parts of the project
• GruppenarbeitImplementation of the overall project in the team, including laboratory work