proposition de sujet de stage de M2/césure

RESEARCH PROJECT FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2010
Internship duration: 5-6 months. Suitable for a M2 internship or an internship during a year off.
Salary: about 550 Euros/month (“gratification”)
Project title: Barbarus exoskeleton modelization
RESEARCH TEAMS
Collective Animal Behavior (CRCA, Toulouse), Conception Bio-Inspirée  (ISM Marseille)
Host institution: Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI)
Website: http://cbi-toulouse.fr/fr/

INFORMATION ON THE RESEARCH PROJECT
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).
References :
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:
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
Web page: http://cbi-toulouse.fr/fr/equipe-fourcassie,