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Individualized Robotic Fitness Trainer - Sweating with an Exoskeleton
Who doesn’t know the struggle of going to gym regularly? Limited time slots on devices, cumbersome setup of the weights, no feedback on your performance… And where is your sparring partner, if you want to train your new wrestling styles and strategies? A partner that challenges, motivates, and pushes you to your limits?
Robots are joining our workplaces, e.g., as assistants for assembly, in health care and for surveillance rendering human jobs more save and interesting. In sports, robots are seldomly found outside of motion science. However, we see a big potential in robots to bridge the gap between highly repetitive & individual training in gyms and the engaging training with a human sparring partner. Therefore, we want to develop a software framework for various robots that provides individual fitness training using physical human-robot interaction. Thereby, we hope to gain valuable insights in physical human-robot interaction that might transfer to other fields, e.g., robot assisted rehabilitation.
Robots are joining our workplaces, e.g., as assistants for assembly, in health care and for surveillance rendering human jobs more save and interesting. In sports, robots are seldomly found outside of motion science. However, we see a big potential in robots to bridge the gap between highly repetitive & individual training in gyms and the engaging training with a human sparring partner. Therefore, we want to develop a software framework for various robots that provides individual fitness training using physical human-robot interaction. Thereby, we hope to gain valuable insights in physical human-robot interaction that might transfer to other fields, e.g., robot assisted rehabilitation.
● Literature research
● Conceptual development of the behavioral policy for the ANYexo
● Refinement of the controllers based on hardware experiments
● Planning and executing an experimental protocol to demonstrate the performance
● Literature research ● Conceptual development of the behavioral policy for the ANYexo ● Refinement of the controllers based on hardware experiments ● Planning and executing an experimental protocol to demonstrate the performance
Based on the existing hard- and software of ANYexo, an upper-limb exoskeleton for neurorehabilitation, and the individual skill coaching framework for robots SIESTA, we want to apply these tools for robot driven arm fitness training. The design of novel controllers for personalized training strategies based on haptic interaction with the user should give novel insights into human-robot interaction.
Based on the existing hard- and software of ANYexo, an upper-limb exoskeleton for neurorehabilitation, and the individual skill coaching framework for robots SIESTA, we want to apply these tools for robot driven arm fitness training. The design of novel controllers for personalized training strategies based on haptic interaction with the user should give novel insights into human-robot interaction.
● Practical programming experience preferably in C++ (Matlab, ROS, RViz, Gazebo is a plus)
● Highly motivated, autonomously working.
● Interest in physical human-robot interaction and good understanding of multibody dynamics
● Practical programming experience preferably in C++ (Matlab, ROS, RViz, Gazebo is a plus) ● Highly motivated, autonomously working. ● Interest in physical human-robot interaction and good understanding of multibody dynamics
Michael Sommerhalder, somichae@ethz.ch
Yves Zimmermann, yvesz@ethz.ch
Michael Sommerhalder, somichae@ethz.ch Yves Zimmermann, yvesz@ethz.ch