Run with your own twin digital athlete: smart wearables for sensing leg biomechanics in the wild
Are you passionate about wearable technologies for sensing human movement? Are you interested in developing fully wearable technologies for sensing human biomechanics, out of constrained laboratory conditions and directly in the real world? Join us for an ambitious project across two faculties (ET and EECMS) and three research groups (RAM, BSS, BE) and the UT’s Robotics Centre.
This is framed as part of the “Mission I.A.M.” initiative (link: www.mission-iam.com), which aims at creating a wearable tech that will monitor biomechanical health continuously during for ultra-marathon races in order to ultimately develop bionic legs that can be used anytime, anywhere, by anyone. We are now targeting developing a prototype ready to be used for the Marathon Des Sables, Jordan edition, on November 1-8, 2025 (https://www.halfmarathondessables.com/jordan).
We will assemble a team of 3 MSc students who will work together over a period of 9 months for the development of (1) re-usable, durable and wearable muscle sensors, (2) minimal sensing setups, (3) digital human twins.