 Sensory-Motor Systems LabOpen OpportunitiesOrgans-on-Chip (OoC) replicate human organs in vitro but often lack physiological perfusion profiles. This project aims to develop a compact robotic XY stage for integration with OoC perfusion systems, enhancing automation and precision. By improving compatibility and mimicking dynamic blood flow, this innovation advances research and pharmaceutical applications. - Biomedical Engineering
- Master Thesis
| Human intention drives goal-directed actions, requiring decomposition into hierarchical instructions, from abstract strategies to concrete interactions. Robotics seeks to automate these instructions, but challenges arise in domains like neurorehabilitation, where complex human-robot interactions introduce inefficiencies from incomplete automation, diverse user preferences for strategies, and difficulties to engage with technical parameters.
This thesis will explore shared instruction space characteristics across robotic domains, focusing on bottlenecks in automating high-level instructions. Novel metrics will be developed that define and classify instruction layers, strategies, and requirements. - Intelligent Robotics
- Bachelor Thesis
| In this project, we focus on continuous and quantitative monitoring of activities of daily living (ADL) in SCI individuals with the goal of identifying cardiovascular events and PI-related risk behaviors.
ADLs specific to SCI patients and their lifestyles shall be discussed and narrowed down in the scope of this work, therefore an autonomous camera-based system is proposed to classify ADLs.
The Current work builds on a previous project where a SlowFast network [1] was trained to identify SCI-specific classes and we aim to further improve the classification and temporal resolution for transferring to wearables' time-series data. - Computer Vision, Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance), Intelligent Robotics, Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning, Neural Networks, Genetic Alogrithms and Fuzzy Logic, Pattern Recognition
- Bachelor Thesis, Course Project, ETH for Development (ETH4D) (ETHZ), ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This hands-on work (internship or semester project) within a clinical setting will bring you close to intelligent health management while exploring multiple data systems. You will experience multimodal data of robotics rehabilitation, general clinical practice, and detailed clinical studies applied in classification and dimensionality reduction. - Biomechanics, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Computer-Human Interaction, Engineering and Technology, Expert Systems, Information Systems Development Methodologies, Information Systems Management, Intelligent Robotics, Interfaces and Presentation, Medicine-general, Neural Networks, Genetic Alogrithms and Fuzzy Logic, Operating Systems, Pattern Recognition, Programming Techniques, Rehabilitation and Therapy: Occupational and Physical, Sensory Systems, Signal Processing, Simulation and Modelling, Software Engineering, Sports Medicine, Virtual Reality and Related Simulation
- Bachelor Thesis, ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Internship, Lab Practice, Master Thesis, Other specific labels, Semester Project
| Modern wearable and nearable sensors allow for continuous 24-hour health monitoring. In clinical settings, such a richness of data is highly desirable to closely monitor the health status of patients, however, often not exploited due to the lack of common interfaces and the overall complexity of integrating the devices into the clinical routine. Moreover, future treatment devices could benefit from interfacing with these sensors through a common interface to perform closed-loop interventions.
In this project, you will develop a novel time-series online synchronization and communication agent adaptable to data changes for interfacing wearable, nearable sensors data with robots in an intelligent system.
Together with a research team in Japan, this work will be implemented at several clinical settings. - Biomedical Engineering, Biosensor Technologies, Computer-Human Interaction, Conceptual Modelling, Data Structures, Digital Systems, Engineering/Technology Instrumentation, Information Storage, Retrieval and Management, Intelligent Robotics, Medical and Health Sciences, Operating Systems, Signal Processing, Software Engineering
- Bachelor Thesis, Collaboration, ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This master thesis focuses on the kinematic modeling of a 4-DoF hand-held robotic arthroscope. The main challenge will be to find fast and accurate forward (and backward) kinematics for a non-holonomic robot. - Engineering and Technology
- Master Thesis
| The project shall enable all people – regardless of their physical or cognitive abilities – to work in the kitchen - Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| The project aims to describe vibration of internal organs during jogging and what benefits these vibrations may have for human health. - Biomedical Engineering
- Master Thesis
| Causl Discovery aims to find causal relations from data, being increasingly important in various fields such as health science. Despite the growing amount of work on applying causal discovery methods with expert knowledge to areas of interest, few of them inspect the uncertainty of expert knowledge (what if the expert goes wrong?). This is highly important since in scientific fields, causal discovery with expert knowledge should be cautious and an approach taking expert uncertainty into account will be more robust to potential bias induced by individuals. Therefore, we aim to develop an iterative causal discovery method with experts in the loop to enable continual interaction and calibration between experts and data.
Besides, fusing datasets from different sources is essential for holistic discovery and reasoning. This project will also focus on developing methods of machine learning and data fusion over distinct contexts under the scope of SCI.
Based on the qualifications of the candidates, we can arrange a subsidy/allowance to cover traveling or living costs. - Expert Systems, Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance), Statistics
- Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| This project focuses on developing an explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) framework based on graphical modeling (GM), to enhance the capacity and capability of medical AI. Collaborating with the Swiss Paraplegic Centre (SPZ) for validation, our goal is to improve the long-term prognosis of spinal cord injury (SCI) individuals. Through medical records and a multimodal sensory monitoring system, we aim to create digital twins capable of integrating diverse data sources, guiding medical treatment, and addressing common secondary health conditions in the SCI population. The envisioned GM-based digital twin (GMDT) will represent hierarchical relations across demographic features, functional abilities, daily activities, and health conditions for SCI individuals, allowing for downstream tasks such as prediction, causal inference, and counterfactual reasoning. The assimilation and evolution between the physical and digital twins will be implemented under the GM framework, promising advancements in personalized healthcare strategies and improved outcomes for SCI people. Please refer to the attached document for more details about the task description. Based on the candidate's qualifications, funding/allowance can be provided. - Biomedical Engineering, Digital Systems, Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Simulation and Modelling
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
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