University of Twente/MIRA further strengthens cooperation with Xsens

Since its inception more than 10 years ago Xsens has had a strong collaboration with the leading technical University in its home town – University of Twente, specifically the MIRA Institute. As a step to further strengthen the excellent collaboration between MIRA and Xsens, MIRA has this week announced a vacancy for a new professor chair.

The research domain of the new chair holder is optimal estimation, identification and sensor fusion. The focus of activities is the application of this theoretical field in the biomedical domain and the stimulation of new business opportunities in this area. 

The primary focus of the research will be sensor fusion in ambulatory human movement analysis, an area in which MIRA and the successful spin-off Xsens are world leading. With recent advances in the field of large state system identification, tracking and control, a clinically relevant patient-specific assessment of motor performance can be obtained. Such an approach is able to address the complex and time-varying nature of the human neuromuscular control system and thus significantly advance the field. Beyond this primary focus, the new chair holder will contribute to other research areas of MIRA involving optimal estimation, identification and sensor fusion, like identification of body functions controlled by the central nervous system (STW NeuroSipe program) and of interactions between robots and humans.

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