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This page contains the database of possible research projects for master and bachelor students in the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). Visiting students are also welcome to join BioRob, but it should be noted that no funding is offered for those projects (see https://biorob.epfl.ch/students/ for instructions). To enroll for a project, please directly contact one of the assistants (directly in his/her office, by phone or by mail). Spontaneous propositions for projects are also welcome, if they are related to the research topics of BioRob, see the BioRob Research pages and the results of previous student projects.

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Amphibious robotics
Computational Neuroscience
Dynamical systems
Human-exoskeleton dynamics and control
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Mobile robotics
Modular robotics
Neuro-muscular modelling
Quadruped robotics


Amphibious robotics

759 – Snakes vs 1guilla - a kinematic and energetic comparison
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Category:master project (full-time)
Keywords:Bio-inspiration, Data Evaluation, Data Processing, Experiments
Type:20% theory, 40% hardware, 40% software
Responsible: (MED 0 2326, phone: 38499)
Description:

Snakes use undulatory swimming to move efficiently through water, and different species show distinct patterns depending on their morphology and environment. With datasets available from live swimming tests and access to an undulatory robot, we can combine data analysis and physical experiments to explore their performance systematically and address biological questions.

Project Description:

The goal of this project is to analyse and replicate the diversity of swimming gaits in snakes using kinematic data from different species and a robot to explore insights into energy consumption. We’ll use reduced-order modelling to extract dominant motion patterns and look for structure in the data, for example, clustering gaits by species or lifestyle. Based on these results, we’ll test a few representative cases on a robotic platform to evaluate how well the robot can replicate biological gaits and how performance (e.g. speed, efficiency) varies with different strategies.

Specific Goals:

  • Analyse snake swimming data to extract key gait parameters (e.g. curvature, amplitude, frequency)
  • Perform reduced-order modelling to identify dominant gait modes.
  • Cluster the gaits by species, morphology, or habitat.
  • Select a few representative gaits and implement them on an undulatory robot.
  • Run experiments to evaluate robotic performance across gaits.
  • Compare biological and robotic results to identify general trends.


Last edited: 14/07/2025
753 – Gait analysis in the salamander from pose estimation
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Category:semester project
Keywords:Data Evaluation, Data Processing
Type:100% software
Responsible: (MED 1 1024, phone: 30563)
Description:The project will involve the analysis of the kinematics tracking of key poses on salamanders in land and water before and after spinal cord injury in python. The goal of the project is to analyze the data using signal processing tools, eliminate undesired samples, and use classification tools to determine each gait at different stages before and after spinal cord injury.

Last edited: 27/02/2025

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