Abstract
Advances in all aspects of robotics (design, manufacturing, actuation, and controls) have enabled the development of bio-inspired robots that can now achieve some similar functions as their biological counterparts (the Harvard RoboBee, CMU modsnake, RHex, etc). Due to the increasing use of robots as a tool in the scientific process, a large community of biologists use sophisticated robotics hardware and principles to test biological hypotheses in control, actuation, and dynamics of organismal motion. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate interactions between these two communities—bio-inspired roboticists and robotics-enabled biologists. In particular, we hope to identify how roboticists who develop bio-inspired devices may shape new directions of biological inquiry. Furthermore, we want to understand how experiments in organismal locomotion are enabling new concepts for robot design and control. This workshop will address the commonalities and differences underlying these fields through keynote presentations from experts and a panel discussion. The goal of this workshop is to develop an appreciation for the cross-disciplinary roles of scientists and engineers in the future of robotic and biological locomotion research.
Important details
This is a one day workshop on the intersections of robotics and biology, being held at ICRA 2015, May 26th 8AM - 5PM, Seattle, Washington.
We are currently accepting 1-page abstracts for poster presentations at the workshop, see here for more info. Due date is March, 29th extended to April, 2nd., notifications by April, 7th
Registration
Registration for full-conference and workshop-only attendees is $150. If attending only the workshop you do not have to register for the conference.
Link to registration here
Speakers
| 8:30 | Welcome and agenda | ||
| 8:35 | 1 | George Lauder (Harvard University) | |
| 9 | 2 | Metin Sitti (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) | |
| 9:25 | 3 | Dan Goldman (Georgia Tech) | |
| 9:50 | 4 | Sangbae Kim (MIT) | |
| 10:15 | Coffee | ||
| 10:45 | 5 | Ron Fearing (UC Berkeley) | |
| 11:10 | 6 | Tom Daniel (University of Washington) | |
| 11:35 | 7 | Howie Choset (Carnegie Mellon) | |
| 12:00 | 8 | John Long (Vassar college) | |
| 12:25 | Lunch | ||
| 13:25 | 9 | Xinyan Deng (Purdue) | |
| 13:50 | 10 | Kristi Morgansen (University of Washington) | |
| 14:15 | 11 | Dario Floreano (EPFL) | |
| 14:40 | 12 | Sam Burden (University of Washington) | |
| 15:05 | Coffee | ||
| 15:30 | 13 | Soon-Jo Chung (UIUC) | |
| 15:55 | 14 | Noah Cowan (Johns Hopkins University) | |
| 16:20 | 15 | Bob Full (UC Berkeley) | |
| 16:45 | Closing Discussions | ||
| 17:00 | Poster presentations | ||
| 18:00 |
Poster contributions
| 1 | Matthew Travers, Henry Astley, Perrin Schiebel, Chaohui Gong, Dan Goldman, and Howie Choset | CMU | Constrained Whole-Body Compliance |
| 2 | Martin Saska | Czech Technical University in Prague | Experimental platform of self-stabilized micro aerial vehicles designed for research of flocking behaviour in nature |
| 3 | Eatai Roth, Robert W. Hall, Thomas L. Daniel, and Simon N. Sponberg | University of Washington | Identifying visual and mechanosensory pathways in hawk moth flower-tracking behavior |
| 4 | Massimo Vespignani, Kamilo Melo, Stephane Bonardi, and Auke J. Ijspeert | EPFL | Snake robot locomotion with compliant elements |
| 5 | Mohren T.L., Eberle A.L., Dickerson B.H. and Daniel T.L. | University of Washington | Gyroscopic sensing by flapping wings Strain gauges encode body angular velocity |
| 6 | Manu S. Madhav, Ravikrishnan P. Jayakumar, James J. Knierim, and Noah J. Cowan | Johns Hopkins University | Investigation of cognitive map formation using virtual reality closed-loop control |
| 7 | Xuesu Xiao, Henry C. Astley, Jin Dai, Weikun Zhen, Chaohui Gong, Daniel I. Goldman, and Howie Choset | CMU | How Compound-Wave Control Alleviates Hyper-Redundant Control Complexity |
| 8 | Xichen Shi, Shripad Gade, and Soon-Jo Chung | UIUC | Control of Robotic Falcon to Prevent Airport Bird Strikes |
| 9 | Luca Fiorio, Francesco Romano, Alberto Parmiggiani, Giulio Sandini, Giorgio Metta, and Francesco Nori | Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia | An implementation of a muscle-like property in a variable stiffness actuator: the pnrVSA solution |
| 10 | Robert MacCurdy and Hod Lipson | Cornell | Multicellular Machines: Electromechanical Design with Heterogeneous Modules |
| 11 | Thomas Libby, Aaron M. Johnson, Robert J. Full, and D. E. Koditschek | UC Berkeley | Comparative Morphology of Inertial Reorientation |
| 12 | Kaushik Jayaram and Robert J. Full | UC Berkeley | Compressibility enables cockroach-inspired robot to crawl rapidly in confined spaces |
| 13 | Li Wen, Yueping Wang, Meng Qingan, Huan Liu, Juan Guan, Dylan Wainwright, and Chris Kenaley | Beihang University, Beijing, China | Morphological structure and the mechanical property of Remora (Echeneidae) adhesion disc |
| 14 | Alireza Ramezani, Xichen Shi, Soon-Jo Chung, and Seth Hutchinson | UIUC | Bat Bot (B2), an Articulated-Winged Bat Robot |
| 15 | Bora Banjanin Samuel A. Burden | University of Washington | Parsimonious predictive models for legged locomotion |
Important dates Poster contributions are closed
March 29thextended to April, 2nd, Submission deadlineApril 5th, Notification of acceptance
Contact
This is a workshop taking place at the upcoming ICRA 2015 robotics conference (www.icra2015.org) taking place in Seattle Washington from May 27-30 organized by,
- Nick Gravish, McDonnell fellow, Harvard University
- Chen Li, Miller Fellow, UC Berkeley
- Hamid Marvi, Postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Mellon
- Howie Choset, Full Professor, Carnegie Mellon
- Ron Fearing, Full Professor, UC Berkeley
- Rob Wood, Full Professor, Harvard University
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together roboticists and bioligists to discuss the emerging frontiers in bio and robotic locomotion science. We are soliciting abstracts for poster presentations from students and researchers in both biology and bio-inspired robotics. Link to a printable flyer poster here. This workshop is organized by