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At Empa, the Cellulose & Wood Materials laboratory is developing a 3D printing platform for the production of functional cellulose based devices. In particular, we work on materials with locally tuneable mechanical properties triggered by light. - Chemical Engineering, Composite Materials, Mechanical Engineering, Polymers
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Integrating DNA-based biorecognition elements termed aptamers that recognize chemical targets with high specificity and selectivity into next-generation electronic, plasmonic, and optical biosensors. - Analytical Chemistry, Biomechanical Engineering, Cell Neurochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Nanotechnology, Neurosciences
- Bachelor Thesis, Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| 1 June to 23 June 2020 - The ETH Singapore Month brings together ETH, local and international students in Singapore to research and test options for solving societal challenges under the theme «The Future of Circular Economies». - Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences, Architecture, Urban Environment and Building, Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing, Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology, Language and Culture, Studies in Human Society
- Summer School
| Robot-assisted therapy of stroke patients is a promising approach to improve the therapy outcome and to tackle the challenges of demographic ageing. Using a novel 6 DoF exoskeleton prototype, we want to investigate/develop new control strategies for the next generation of these robots. - Intelligent Robotics, Mechanical Engineering, Neurosciences, Rehabilitation Engineering, Robotics and Mechatronics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| We are developing a biosensor of fish cells on a microfluidic chip for water quality monitoring by impedance sensing. We will construct a water mixing unit, miniaturise the system, and enable remote control & online data viewing. After prototyping in the lab, the system will be tested on lake Geneva - Biosensor Technologies, Engineering/Technology Instrumentation, Environmental Engineering Design, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Technologies, Fluidization and Fluid Mechanics
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Precise handling of single cells is of fundamental importance for modern genetics and disease research.
The goal of the project is the characterization and improvement of a non-invasive acoustically-activated system for the manipulation of cells and microparticles. - Fluidization and Fluid Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering
- Semester Project
| In Switzerland, official reports state that 6.5 % of all car accidents are connected to driving under the influence of alcohol. In this thesis, you will explore this topic and develop an approach to mitigate those risks. - Business and Management, Engineering and Technology, Information Systems, Law, Justice and Law Enforcement, Nutrition and Dietetics, Nutrition and Physiology, Psychology, Transportation
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis
| By combining unique engineering solutions with 3D printing and cell biology the group of Prof. Jennifer Lewis has become a world leader in bioengineering at the Wyss Institute and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. A new patented technology developed within the group, acoustophoretic printing, allows the processing whole new space of materials, enabling the advanced manufacturing a whole new categories of products.
Prof Lewis' group now solicits applications for a visiting master student to aid the develop of a new the proof of concept. - Engineering and Technology, Physics
- Master Thesis
| In the course of this master thesis, you will
help us to improve our current surgery
planning methods by developing an approach
to predict the reposition of the fragment and
the pose of the cutting planes defining the
bone wedge. - Information, Computing and Communication Sciences
- Master Thesis
| Most of the quadrupedal robots we see today have legs that, essentially, consist of two links (see picture below). There have been a few exceptions (e.g. the MIT Cheetah 2) that used more complex linkage structures. However, in these cases, the linkage structures have typically been chosen such that 1) those links that couple degrees of freedom are very lightweight and 2) the resulting closed-loop chains exhibit the kinematics of a parallelogram – one of the few closed-loop structures for which analytical solutions are known. Therefore, in these cases, one could get away without really accounting for the closed-loop linkages in the control algorithms.
Accordingly, as far as we know, there currently does not exist any implementation of a hierarchical/prioritized whole-body controller (see the paper in the application paragraph below) that could handle general closed-loop linkage structures (for which analytical solutions typically do not exist).
Yet, the ability to control legs with arbitrary closed-loop linkages would allow for significantly more flexibility in the mechanical design of robotic legs. The introduction of additional coupled links could, for instance, be used to increase energy efficiency, reduce the envelop (avoiding collisions is the reason why robots such as Spot walk down stairs backwards), or improve the torque-to-force ratio for certain configurations. Advantages might also arise from different designs of the front and the hind legs, for instance when jumping.
We would thus like to extend hierarchical whole-body control to efficiently handle arbitrary closed-loop linkages and use it to subsequently investigate novel, improved leg designs. - Intelligent Robotics, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Robotics and Mechatronics, Simulation and Modelling
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
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