Team

Tristan Vouga is a PhD student at the LSRO. He designed the mechanics of TWIICE during his first year of PhD. He invented the manufacturing process that made TWIICE so flexible and lightweight.

Romain Baud is a PhD student at the LSRO. He is specialized in automatic control and mechatronics. In TWIICE, he designs the electronics and sensing, and programs the onboard computer and the remote supervision software.

Jemina Fasola is a PhD student at the LSRO. Her research interests are robot-assisted gait rehabilitation, motor learning of lateral balance and neural control of movement. In the TWIICE project, she is in charge of the user-machine interface, the training program and the walking trajectories.

Julien Pache is a design engineer graduated from the HE-Arc Neuchâtel. Specialized in product design, he works on the adaptation of objects to their users. In the TWIICE project, he optimizes the ergonomics of the device and provides technical assistance in the production of the exoskeleton’s structure.

Marek Jancik obtained a Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from EPFL. He has been working in the development and manufacturing of high performance composites structures for sports, aeronautical and civil drones’ applications. In the TWIICE project, he optimizes the manufacturing processes and the material choices.

Hannes Bleuler has studied electrical engineering at ETH Zurich and obtained his PhD there on mechatronics (1984), before going to Japan (industry and academia) for a total of 6 years. He has been involved in the creation of start-up companies in the biomedical domain. Since 1995 he is at the Robotic Systems Lab (LSRO) at EPFL in Lausanne and also in charge of exchanges of EPFL with Japan. The LSRO Lab is developing various aspects of robotics hardware for a wide range of applications (industry, astronomy, educational and, essentially, biomedical).