The 3rd meeting of the HelpMeWalk consortium took place at the Rottweil research center of Hochschule Furtwangen (HFU).
Volker Bucher, project partner and Vice Dean for Research, Transfer, and Continuing Education at HFU, presented his institution: the campuses and academic programs, the research institutes and partnerships with industry, as well as the research projects led by his team.
The new members of the project were introduced: Sarah Chouchene, a data scientist who joined ICube-Unistra in March, and Nicolas Pfaff, who started at HFU in early May and will replace Nicolai Simon, who is now head of the Rottweil center.
Administrative and financial matters were presented by the project manager, Analbery Monteiro.
HFU: Nicolai Simon presented the piston of the semi-automatic dispenser that was created to fill the silicone mold for sensor encapsulation.
Weaknesses of the system were identified and improvements are planned.
FHNW: presented the new prototype and the flexible sensors they are developping.
They are working on miniaturizing the sensors, which will be used for prototypes designed for children.
UNISTRA: Manon and Sarah presented the progress of their work on applying machine learning and deep learning models for localization of magnetic sensors.
HSKL: the team presented results on cross-reconstruction methods of foot shape.
