Department of Health Sciences and TechnologyAcronym | D-HEST | Homepage | http://www.hest.ethz.ch/ | Country | Switzerland | ZIP, City | | Address | | Phone | | Type | Academy | Parent organization | ETH Zurich | Current organization | Department of Health Sciences and Technology | Child organizations | |
Open OpportunitiesYou will obtain functional constructs of living muscle tissue that can be implemented into robots as bio-actuators. The tissue will be realized via bioprinting or conventional biofabrication in 3D designs at the mm-to-cm scale. The deformation of the constructs will be achieved via electrical stimulation of contractile muscle cells, and integrated sensing elements will monitor the motion of the tissue constructs, improving functionality and autonomy. - Biology, Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| Lucid dreaming allows individuals to be aware of and control their dreams, offering benefits for therapy, creativity, and skill enhancement. Techniques such as pre-sleep meditation improve lucid dream frequency and clarity. Sensory stimuli, synchronized with sleep stages, can further induce lucidity. This project aims to develop a closed-loop system to enhance lucid dreaming training and experience. The system will use recorded EEG data to detect sleep stages and combine pre-sleep meditation with sensory stimuli applied during the respective sleep stages. The lab's existing rocking bed “Somnomat” will be integrated to apply vestibular stimuli and additional sensory stimuli based on auditory or visual cues, triggered by physiological changes, or depending on a specific sleep stage. - Engineering and Technology
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Master Thesis
| Ultrasound imaging with contrast agents such as microbubbles and nanodroplets
is a promising tool to diagnose and monitor diseases at the molecular level. In
our lab, we are interested in detecting soluble molecular targets such
as proteases in vivo. To achieve this, we aim to modify the acoustic properties
of microbubbles in response to protease activity by altering their shell
properties using tight peptide-crosslinked networks. - Chemistry, Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences
- Bachelor Thesis, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| The goal of the project is to develop a wearable device capable of non-invasive measurement of human biomarkers related to performance and fatigue during exercise. - Chemistry, Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences
- Master Thesis
| The goal of the project is to synthesize and characterize a number of small molecules capable of acting as mechanophore addition to various polymers. These polymers would then be used as wearable strain or pressure sensors. - Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Composite Materials
- Master Thesis
| This project will be based on the preliminary results obtained from a previous master project in causal graphical modeling of autonomous dysreflexia (AD). The focus of the extension would be two-fold. One is improving the temporal graphical reconstruction for understanding the mechanism of AD. The other one is building a forecasting framework for the early detection and prevention of AD using the graph structure we constructed before. Please refer to the attached document for more details about the task description. Based on the candidate's qualifications, funding/allowance can be provided. - Artificial Intelligence and Signal and Image Processing, Autonomic Nervous System
- ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Internship, Master Thesis, Semester Project
| The goal of the project is to modify commercially available conductive yarns to improve their operational properties for potential employment in novel garment-embedded sensors for human motion detection. - Engineering and Technology, Medical and Health Sciences, Other Chemistry
- Semester Project
| In this project, we are going to develop a vision-based reinforcement learning policy for drone navigation in dynamic environments. The policy should adapt to two potentially conflicting navigation objectives: maximizing the visibility of a visual object as a perceptual constraint and obstacle avoidance to ensure safe flight. - Engineering and Technology
- Master Thesis
| Recent research has demonstrated significant success in integrating foundational models with robotic systems. In this project, we aim to investigate how these foundational models can enhance the vision-based navigation of UAVs. The drone will utilize learned semantic relationships from extensive world-scale data to actively explore and navigate through unfamiliar environments. While previous research primarily focused on ground-based robots, our project seeks to explore the potential of integrating foundational models with aerial robots to enhance agility and flexibility. - Engineering and Technology
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
| In this project, you will investigate the use of event-based cameras for vision-based landing on celestial bodies such as Mars or the Moon. - Engineering and Technology
- Master Thesis, Semester Project
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