Skip to Content
← Back to services

Motion Analysis Laboratory

TEF-Health Service
Physical
Unique Identifier: 7262d74c-d274-4d21-bf59-8d1a4659a053

Service Description

Overview This service provides full-body motion analysis in a stationary environment, specifically tailored for sports and complex biomechanical tasks. The facility relies on a high-precision optical motion-capture tracking volume, originally configured as an advanced golf simulator, that is adaptable to a wide range of athletic movements. By combining a dense array of infrared cameras with high-speed RGB video and inertial sensors, the laboratory captures precise 3D kinematic data. This setup enables detailed assessment of joint angles, segment velocities, and technique execution, providing structured reference data for sports science research, markerless pose estimation training, and validation of athletic wearables.

How can the service help you? Developing sports performance trackers, digital coaching applications, or AI-based computer vision models for movement analysis requires precise 3D spatial data. This service provides the necessary gold-standard optical tracking data to validate external systems. Before using this facility, developers often lack the tracking accuracy needed to verify their algorithms. After using the service, clients receive highly accurate 3D coordinate data of joint centers and body segments, allowing them to calculate error margins in their own hardware or software solutions and ensure compliance with relevant performance or medical standards.

How will the service be delivered? The service is executed physically at the laboratory facilities in Erlangen, Germany. Sessions are structured around the specific sports movement or biomechanical task being analyzed. The engineering team handles camera calibration, retroreflective marker placement on the participant (if optical tracking is used), and system synchronization. Following the capture session, the 3D marker trajectories are reconstructed, cleaned, and exported for the client.

Additional information Provider description Operating under the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, this facility is a service-provider node within the TEF-Health consortium. The research group focuses on machine learning, biomechanical modeling, and digital health. The team provides testing environments and methodological support for evaluating medical devices and health technologies.

Technical details The laboratory uses a hybrid optical-inertial tracking setup optimized for fast, complex movements. Optical Tracking System: The core motion-capture volume (the golf-simulator setup) uses 12 Vicon infrared cameras for precise 3D marker tracking, complemented by 2 Vicon RGB cameras for synchronized high-speed video recording and visual reference. Inertial Tracking: 10x Vicon BlueTrident IMUs are available to track movements outside the optical volume or to provide hybrid optical-inertial data for algorithm training. Auxiliary Equipment: A dedicated camera (Maike) is available for additional recording angles, and 2x Apple iPhone SE 2022 devices are used to test mobile applications. Software: Data acquisition and reconstruction are handled via Vicon software. Agisoft Metashape Pro is available for advanced photogrammetry and 3D environment/subject modeling. Standards: Procedures and data management can align with Medical Device Regulations EU/2017/745 for relevant clinical applications.

Service customization The capture volume and sensor configuration are fully customizable. Clients can define specific marker sets (from minimal lower-body sets to full-body anatomical models) depending on the movement being analyzed. The service can also be configured to collect synchronous optical and IMU data to help developers train sensor-fusion algorithms.

Offerings: Testing Pre-Clinical (Neurology, Cardiology, wearables, motion, psychophysical, GLP, animal safety, toxicity, etc.)
TEF-Health Use Case Domain: all
Provider Logo

Provider & Contact

Provider Organisation Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU)
Provider Country Germany
Ask about this service
Billing: per day
Full Price €1440 EUR

Operational Details

Service Inputs Study Objective, Requirements, Test Subject(s), Prototype Device
Service Outputs Dataset, Report
Service Standards
  • - Silver standard in/out of lab IMU based gait analysis

Related services

  • 3T MRI Human imaging data acquisition (clinical)

    Centre Hospitalier Universitaire De Rennes (CHU RENNES)

    MRI 3 Tesla (Philips Ingenia Edition X), imaging, data acquisition, clinical

    View service →
  • 3T MRI Imaging data acquisition (Clinical)

    Karolinska Institutet (KI)

    Centre for Imaging Research (CIR) is a world-leading imaging centre at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with SciLIfeLab and RISE. It offers an exceptional and unique collection of core facilities for cutting-edge structural, functional, and metabolic in vivo multimodal imaging and endovascular/minimally invasive surgical techniques. The core facility, MRI Centre, aims to catalyse novel and translational research using MRI. We offer a state-of-the-art 3 Tesla GE SIGNA Premier system-wide bore gantry and high-performance XT gradients. We support all types of MRI studies in humans, ranging from small single-centre projects to large-scale international multi-centre studies. A special focus is on offering MRI suitable for multi-modal integration such as CT, PET, EEG and MEG. The KI MRI Centre also offers a full-service lab for drawing blood and investigating psychophysiology (EDA, PPG, Eye-tracking) along with standardised image post-processing and data storage facilities with cluster computing for data analysis. In this service, we offer full support in project consultation, ethical permits and module technical support. For more information, visit the website: https://imagingresearch.se/facilities/corefacilities/mrc

    View service →
  • 3T MRI Imaging data acquisition (Pre-clinical, Large animal)

    Karolinska Institutet (KI)

    Centre for Imaging Research (CIR) is a world-leading imaging centre at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with SciLIfeLab and RISE. It offers an exceptional and unique collection of core facilities for cutting-edge structural, functional, and metabolic in vivo multimodal imaging and endovascular/minimally invasive surgical techniques. The core facilities, Karolinska Experimental Research and Imaging Centre (KERIC) and the MRI Centre, aim to catalyse novel and translatory research using MRI. At KERIC, we offer a 9.4T MRI for animals such as rabbits and small piglets (see service for small animal 9.4T MRI). A state-of-the-art 3 Tesla GE SIGNA Premier system-wide bore gantry and high-performance XT gradients are available for large animal preclinical studies. We offer specialised services for large animal models as well as ex vivo imaging and support all types of MRI studies in humans, ranging from small single-centre projects to large-scale international multi-centre studies. A special focus is on offering MRI suitable for multi-modal integration such as CT, PET, EEG and MEG. The KI MRI Centre also offers a full-service lab for drawing blood and investigating psychophysiology (EDA, PPG, Eye-tracking) along with standardised image post-processing and data storage facilities with cluster computing for data analysis. In this service, we offer full support in project consultation, ethical permits, module technical support and animal technicians. For more information, visit the website: https://imagingresearch.se/facilities/corefacilities/mrc Or https://imagingresearch.se/facilities/corefacilities/keric

    View service →
  • 7T MRI Imaging data acquisition (Clinical)

    Karolinska Institutet (KI)

    Centre for Imaging Research (CIR) is a world-leading imaging centre at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with SciLIfeLab and RISE. It offers an exceptional and unique collection of core facilities for cutting-edge structural, functional, and metabolic in vivo multimodal imaging and endovascular/minimally invasive surgical techniques. The core facility, MRI Centre, aims to catalyse novel and translational research using MRI. A unique next-generation clinical 7 Tesla Siemens MAGNETOM Terra.X. equipped with an ultra-high field scanner also offers cutting-edge gradient performance (130 mT/m at 250 T/m/s), parallel transmission, as well as deep learning-based acceleration and denoising for improved image quality. Micrometre resolution in vivo for microstructural imaging and layered fMRI. We support all types of MRI studies in humans, ranging from small single-centre projects to large-scale international multi-centre studies. A special focus is on offering MRI suitable for multi-modal integration such as CT, PET, EEG and MEG. The KI MRI Centre also offers a full-service lab for drawing blood and investigating psychophysiology (EDA, PPG, Eye-tracking) along with standardised image post-processing and data storage facilities with cluster computing for data analysis. In this service, we offer full support in project consultation, ethical permits and module technical support. For more information, visit the website: https://imagingresearch.se/facilities/corefacilities/mrc

    View service →
  • 9.4T MRI Imaging data acquisition (Pre-clinical, Small animal )

    Karolinska Institutet (KI)

    Centre for Imaging Research (CIR) is a world-leading imaging centre at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden in collaboration with SciLIfeLab and RISE. It offers an exceptional and unique collection of core facilities for cutting-edge structural, functional, and metabolic in vivo multimodal imaging and endovascular/minimally invasive surgical techniques. The core facility Karolinska Experimental Research and Imaging Centre (KERIC), we have a preclinical 9.4T Bruker USR 94/30 MRI system. The state-of-the-art 9.4T MRI is equipped with single-mouse, single-rat, or double-mouse beds. It has three gradient bore sizes to arrange an effective inner diameter of 20cm (large animals), 12cm (medium animals) or 6cm (small animals). Methods in anatomical imaging, fMRI, Ex vivo, Pharmacological MRI and Cardiac imaging (CINE). For the mouse brain, a 4-channel phased array cry-coil drastically increased signal-to-noise. In this service, we offer full support in project consultation, ethical permits, module technical support, animal technicians and data analysis. We can host animals directly or indirectly through collaboration within KU (AKM) and other animal labs. For more information, visit the website: https://imagingresearch.se/facilities/corefacilities/keric

    View service →
  • Access to Compound Collection

    Karolinska Institutet (KI)

    The Unit: Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (https://www.scilifelab.se/units/cbcs/) The infrastructure is part of Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) which is an academic collaboration between Swedish universities (including Karolinska Institutet) and a national research infrastructure with a focus on life science. Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS) is a national research infrastructure offering an extensive portfolio of services - from computational and organic chemistry to phenotypic small molecule screens in cells and model organisms, cell painting and functional precision medicine. The mission of CBCS is to provide a state-of-the-art platform and expertise for the generation of high-quality bioactive chemical tools (small organic molecules) for applications within life science research in general and with the ultimate goal to explore complex biology. Our units comprise compound handling labs (hosting the SciLifeLab Compound Collection of ca 350,000 molecules), screening labs (microtiter format liquid handling robotics and a wide range of plate readers), and chemistry labs (equipment and instrumentation for organic chemistry synthesis and analysis). The service: Access to compound collection https://www.cbcs.se/the-compound-collection The Scilifelab Compound Collection is managed by the Compound Center at CBCS KI, and is based on donations of high-quality sets from the pharmaceutical industry (Biovitrum, Karobio, Orexo/Biolipox, KDev) and has been developed and expanded with compounds from various commercial compound vendors. The compounds can be readily available in assay-ready plates through acoustic nano-litre scale liquid dispensing or in 96-tube racks; compounds are stored at 10mM concentration in DMSO solution at - 20 °C under humidity control. We provide: o Management, storage, and processing of solids and liquids. o Compound delivery and interface with key customers. o Performance of instruments and automation that support these operations. o Analytical techniques used for quality assurance. o Sample informatics, including registration and compound quality data.

    View service →