TECHNISCHE UNIVERSIT ¨ AT M ¨ UNCHEN LEHRSTUHL F ¨ UR INFORMATIONSTECHNISCHE REGELUNG ORDINARIA: UNIV.-PROF. DR.-ING. SANDRA HIRCHE October 16, 2018 BACHELOR THESIS/MASTER’S THESIS Frequent head impacts from heading in soccer: Are there behavioral consequences and changes in brain structure? Problem description: Heading a ball in a soccer game has been associated with changes in a long-term brain damage [2]. Quantification of impacts caused by the heading is needed to understand the extent to which it influences the change in the brain struc- ture. This thesis develops machine learning algorithm for detecting heading motion from an inertia sensor worn be- hind the ear. You will collect and use the field data for which the presence or absence of headers is known from video anal- ysis (training data), and develop a machine learning model that recognizes headers from the inertia data [e.g., 1]. This thesis will be supervised in collaboration between Chair of Information-oriented control and Char of human movement science at Department of Sport and Health Sciences. Tasks: • Literature research on machine learning techniques for human motion classification • Collection of the heading motion using an inertia sensor • Analyses and modelling of the inertia data in Matlab Bibliography: [1] Andrea Ancillao, Salvatore Tedesco, John Barton, and Brendan O’Flynn. Indirect Measurement of Ground Reaction Forces and Moments by Means of Wearable Inertial Sensors: A Systematic Review. Sensors, 18(8):2564, aug 2018. [2] Gorazd Bunc, Janez Ravnik, and Tomaz Velnar. May Heading in Soccer Result in Traumatic Brain Injury? A Review of Literature. Med. Arch., 71(5):356, 2017. Supervisor: Dr. Satoshi Endo & Nadine Nurasyid, M. Sc.(Chair of Human movement science) Start: TBC Intermediate Report: TBC Delivery: TBC (S. Hirche) Univ.-Professor