Abschlussarbeiten, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten

22.01.2026, Abschlussarbeiten, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten

The Human-Centered Computing and Extended Reality Lab of the Professorship for Machine Intelligence in Orthopedics seeks applicants for Bachelor/Master Thesis for the Summer Semester 2025.

Rehabilitation remains a cost- and labor-intensive endeavor, even with the introduction of AI into the healthcare sector. Chief among those factors are the therapists themselves, whose ever-increasing workload, combined with the acute shortage of trained therapists remaining in the healthcare sector, also represents a bottleneck in the number of patients receiving treatment.

Exoskeletons provide a unique solution to augment existing rehabilitation workforces, providing them with new, objective kinematic patient data during the recovery process to judge the rehabilitation progress of their patients. This may provide crucial insights into new metrics for the rehabilitation progress and enhance the outcomes of treatment options. Additionally, the portability inherent to exoskeletons allows patients to practice safely in the comfort of their own homes without requiring the direct presence of a supervising therapist.

In this thesis, the student will rework the concept for the physical user interface to reduce slippage during motion due to muscle flexion and soft tissue shifts, and further develop the continuum manipulator drive to increase its performance characteristics. Depending on the remaining time available, the student may improve control of the CM-drive to include position control of the CM-endeffector.

• Reviewing the state-of-the-art in exoskeletons/exosuits for the knee.
• Further develop an existing actuation solution and enhance its controlling scheme
• Evaluate the developed solution

• Good proficiency with C/C++ and Python
• Good proficiency with CAD software
• Good proficiency with microcontroller programming and bus-systems
• Prior knowledge of additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping
• Interest in exoskeletons and robotic rehabilitation devices

Please send your transcript of records, CV and motivation to: Victor Schaack (vic.schaack@tum.de) with CC to hex-thesis.ortho@mh.tum.de

You can find more information and other topics for theses on our website: https://hex-lab.io

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2. L. Ma, Y. Leng, W. Jiang, Y. Qian and C. Fu, "Design an Underactuated Soft Exoskeleton to Sequentially Provide Knee Extension and Ankle Plantarflexion Assistance," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 271-278, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3124081.
3. Gao, M., Wang, Z., Li, S., Li, J., Pang, Z., Liu, S., & Duan, Z. (2021). Design and optimization of exoskeleton structure of lower limb knee joint based on cross four-bar linkage. AIP Advances, 11(6). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0053899
4. D. Sui, B. -C. Chang, R. Hidayah, Y. Zhu and S. K. Agrawal, "SpringExo, a spring-based exoskeleton for providing knee assistance: Design, Characterization and Feasibility Study," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, 2021, pp. 10513-10519, doi: 10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9560775.

Kontakt: vic.schaack@tum.de