The CBI Toulouse offers internships for Bachelor and Master levels. Interested students are advised to consult the pages of host teams and contact directly the researchers involved. RESEARCH TEAM: Collective Animal Behavior (CRCA, Toulouse), Conception Bio-Inspirée (ISM, Marseille) Description of the project: Our project aims at appling a biomechanical approach (CRCA) to understand the efficiency of locomotion in Messor Barbarus who is known to carry heavy loads (10 times its own weight). For this purpose, we need to quantify the kinematic parameters to estimate the inertia characteristics and to determine the internal structure design (muscles and cuticle) of the ant’s body segments. We will assess the kinematics using a high frequency macro videorecoding that has been specially designed in the CRCA for the 3D analysis of gait in insect. The inertia characteristics will be estimated from dissection and modelization based on microscopic views and computed tomography of the different segments. This data will enable us to build a bio-inspired simulation of exoskeleton (CB-I). Techniques that will be used by the student: 3D video recording, video analysis technique, 3D reconstruction, dissection. Required skills: Dissection, data analysis techniques (Matlab), Model and simulation (Opensim) SUPERVISION:Filter by level
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Team : Fourcassie
Team : Payre
Team : Theveneau
Start date : 2021-01-01
Team : Payre
Level : M2
Barbarus exoskeleton modelization
Start date : 2019-11-30
Team : Fourcassie
Level : M2
Pierre MORETTO, Isabelle MASSOU, Santiago ARROYAVE-TOBON.
E-mail: pierre.moretto@univ-tlse3.fr, isabelle.massou@univ-tlse3.fr, santiago.arroyave-tobon@univ-amu.fr
Start date : 2019-01-01
Team : Theveneau
Level : M2