Courses
The course covers the interdisciplinary topics relevant to the development of assistive technologies, including user needs derivation, innovation and rapid prototyping, user-centered design, usability, and efficiency evaluation. It is framed around a user-centered design challenge for a real-world use case (in groups of four students) in tight collaboration with persons with disabilities (challengers), with the goal of realizing an assistive technology solution adapted to the specific needs of each challenger.
This course focuses on the emerging, interdisciplinary field of physical human-robot interaction, bringing together themes from robotics, real-time control, human factors, haptics, virtual environments, interaction design and other fields to enable the development of human-oriented robotic systems. The objective of this course is to give an introduction to the fundamentals of physical human-robot interaction, through lectures on the underlying theoretical/mechatronics aspects and application fields, in combination with a hands-on lab tutorial. The course will guide students through the design and evaluation process of such systems.
This course treats the development of mechatronic systems (i.e. mechanics, electronics, computer science and system integration) with inspiration from biology and application in the living (human) organism. The objective is to give an introduction to the fundamentals of biomechatronics, through lectures on the underlying theoretical/mechatronics aspects and application fields, in combination with exercises.
The course will guide students through the user-centered development and evaluation process of a medical engineering system for arm movement support. It will introduce the fundamentals of data acquisition, signal processing and control engineering, complemented by hands-on experience with sensors/signals, actuators, signal processing, feedforward/feedback control as well as 3D design/printing.
In this one-week block course, students will apply the learnings of Medical Engineering I in the context of a specific challenge. In groups of three, the design and control of the FLEXO elbow exoskeleton will be improved to, and the solutions will be compared in a competition. Student will present and defend the gained insights in a poster presentation.
Rehabilitation Engineering is the application of science and technology to ameliorate the handicaps of individuals with disabilities in order to reintegrate them into society.The goal of this course is to present classical and new rehabilitation engineering principles applied to compensate or enhance motor, sensory, and cognitive deficits. The focus of this course lies on the restoration and treatment of the human sensory and vegetative systems.
This course provides insights into the structure and compilation of scientific papers and publications using LaTeX, as well as open source software for image editing and the creation of vector graphics. LaTeX is a free typesetting tool that separates text format and layout. It is widely used for reports and publications in the scientific domain.
The students will do a mini project in the RELab. The topics of these projects vary depending on the supervisor. This course earns 1 credit point and needs to be approved by Prof. Gassert before an enrolment is possible.
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