Robotics-inspired biology

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Overview

Advances in robot design, actuation, and control have benefitted from biological inspiration. Furthermore, many scientists interested in understanding how animals move are turning to robots to test hypotheses. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate interactions between these two communities: bio-inspired roboticists and robotics-inspired biologists.

This is a virtual workshop that will consist of:

Workshop schedule (all times Pacific Standard Time)

8:00 Welcome, overview, and agenda (Conference organizers)
8:30
  • Soft robots and the selective pressures driving snake behavioral evolution
    • Talia Moore (University of Michigan)
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9:00
  • Bioinspired Robotics and Missing Links
    • Brooke Flammang (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
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9:30
  • Using Biorobots to Investigate Extant and Extinct Animal Locomotion
    • Auke Ijspeert (EPFL)
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10:00
  • Decoding locomotor control priorities for running in birds and robots
    • Monica Daley (UC Irvine)
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10:30 Panel discussion
11:30 Lightning talks from poster session 1
  • Biomimetic soft robot to study the integration of emitter and receiver dynamics in bat biosonar, Shuxin Zhang, Rolf Muller
  • Robot navigation around oncoming movers using bio-inspired opinion dynamics Charlotte Cathcart, Shinkyu Park, Anastasia Bizyaeva, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
  • Flow-Mediated Olfactory Communication in Honey Bee Swarms, Dieu My T. Nguyen, Michael L. Iuzzolino, Aaron Mankel, Katarzyna Bozek, Greg J. Stephens, and Orit Peleg
  • Sink before you swim: Computational model errors reveal the effect of fish behavior and morphology on kinematics, Jonathan Arreguit, Emily Standen, Auke Ijspeert, and Cassandra Donatelli
  • Bio-inspired robotics and robotics-inspired biology: Understanding the evolution of biomechanics in climbing locomotion of lizards, J. T. Schultz, H. K. Beck, T. Proost, T. Haagensen, C. J. Clemente
12:00 Poster session 1
1:30 Lightning talks from poster session 2
  • Multi-component terrain navigation facilitated by passive deformation in a novel snake robophysical model, Marine C. Maisonneuve, Perrin E. Schiebel, Kelimar Diaz, Daniel I. Goldman
  • Pterobots: Sea Butterflies as Soft Robot Models, Ferhat Karakas, Ali Al Dasouqi, Amy E. Maas and David W. Murphy
  • Wing-leg coordination facilates strenuous ground self-righting, Qihan Xuan, Chen Li
  • Streamlining in fire ants rafts, Hungtang Ko, Ting-Ying Yu, David L. Hu
  • Tunabot Flex: a tuna-inspired robot with body flexibility improves high- performance swimming, Carl H. White, George V. Lauder, Hilary Bart-Smith
2:00 Poster session 2
3:30 Workshop ends

Contributed posters

Session Room Title Authors
1 1 How does the razor clam burrow upward: insights from a minimalistic self-burrowing soft robot Sichuan Huang and Junliang (Julian) Tao
1 1 Firefly-inspired vocabulary generator for communication in multi-agent systems Chantal Nguyen, Isabella Huang and Orit Peleg
1 1 A Mode Map Representation to Predict Steady States and Attraction Basins for Legged Locomotion on Obstacle Terrains Haodi Hu, Matthew Kvalheim, Michelle Joyce, Simon Wilshin, Andrew Spence, Feifei Qian
1 1 The influence of active vision on flight control Benjamin Cellini and Jean-Michel Mongeau
1 1 Biomimetic soft robot to study the integration of emitter and receiver dynamics in bat biosonar Shuxin Zhang, Rolf Muller
1 1 Bacteria Inspired Multi-Flagella Propelled Soft Robot at Low Reynolds Number Sangmin Lim, Achyuta Yadunandan, and M. Khalid Jawed
1 2 Robot navigation around oncoming movers using bio-inspired opinion dynamics Charlotte Cathcart, Shinkyu Park, Anastasia Bizyaeva, Naomi Ehrich Leonard
1 2 Bio-Inspired Miniature Undulating Robot Crawling in a Flexible Environment Lee-Hee Drory and David Zarrouk
1 2 Flow-Mediated Olfactory Communication in Honey Bee Swarms Dieu My T. Nguyen, Michael L. Iuzzolino, Aaron Mankel, Katarzyna Bozek, Greg J. Stephens, and Orit Peleg
1 2 An energy landscape approach to locomotor transitions in large obstacle traversal Ratan Othayoth, George Thoms, and Chen Li
1 2 Head and leg adjustments help cockroaches and robots traverse dense obstacles Yaqing Wang, Ratan Othayoth, Chen Li
1 2 A dynamic, biomimetic soft robotic pinna inspired by horseshoe bats Joseph Sutlive and Rolf Muller
1 3 Characterizing the performance of human leg external force control Pawel Kudzia, Stephen N. Robinovitch, Max Donelan
1 3 Effective Damping for Legged Locomotion An Mo, Fabio Izzi, Daniel F. B. Haeufle, and Alexander Badri-Sprowitz
1 3 Sink before you swim: Computational model errors reveal the effect of fish behavior and morphology on kinematics Jonathan Arreguit, Emily Standen, Auke Ijspeert, and Cassandra Donatelli
1 3 How fish feel flow: robotic inspiration from sensory information James C. Liao
1 3 Using artificial neural-network agents to dissect biological plume tracking behavior Satpreet H. Singh, Floris van Breugel, Rajesh P. N. Rao, and Bingni W. Brunton
1 3 Rheology of tunable materials Khoi D. Nguyen, Madhusudhan Venkadesan
1 4 An Integrated Experimental-Modeling Approach to Resource-sharing in Honeybee Swarms Golnar Gharooni Fard, Elizabeth Bradley Charlotte Gorgemans and Orit Peleg
1 4 Bio-inspired robotics and robotics-inspired biology: Understanding the evolution of biomechanics in climbing locomotion of lizards J. T. Schultz, H. K. Beck, T. Proost, T. Haagensen, C. J. Clemente
1 4 The Omega Turn: A Biologically-Inspired Turning Strategy for Elongated Limbless Robots Tianyu Wang, Baxi Chong, Kelimar Diaz, Julian Whitman, Hang Lu, Matthew Travers, Daniel I. Goldman, Howie Choset
1 4 Bio-Inspired Strain Sensor for Applications in Micro-Aerial Vehicles Regan Kubicek, Mahnoush Babaei, Sarah Bergbreiter
2 1 Multi-component terrain navigation facilitated by passive deformation in a novel snake robophysical model Marine C. Maisonneuve, Perrin E. Schiebel, Kelimar Diaz, Daniel I. Goldman
2 1 Pterobots: Sea Butterflies as Soft Robot Models Ferhat Karakas, Ali Al Dasouqi, Amy E. Maas and David W. Murphy
2 1 Passive Gripper for Arboreal Leaping Eric K. Wang, Justin K. Yim, and Ronald S. Fearing
2 2 Biomimetic Robots for Investigation of How Bats Find Their Way in the Forest Liujun Zhang and Rolf Muller
2 2 Stability benefits of snake body undulation and compliance tested by snake robots traversing large, smooth obstacles Qiyuan Fu, Sean W. Gart, and Chen Li
2 2 Geometric mechanics reveals optimal coordination of limb and body waves during centipede locomotion Baxi Chong, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, Perrin Schiebel, Alexandra Carruthers, Enes Aydin, Malcolm Brown, Jennifer Rieser, Daniel I. Goldman
2 3 Wing-leg coordination facilates strenuous ground self-righting Qihan Xuan, Chen Li
2 3 Using latch as a control tool in LaMSA jumping robots to navigate different environments Sathvik Divi and Sarah Bergbreiter
2 3 Developing functional models of hummingbird musculoskeletal system S. Agrawal, B. Tobalske, H. Luo , T. Hedrick and B. Cheng
2 4 Ants Behaviors Exhibit Stokesian Qualities Brian Bittner, Glenna Clifton, Dan Zhao, Nick Gravish, Shai Revzen
2 4 Bioinspired Sensory and Control Principles for Underwater Multi-vehicle Coordination Anthony Thompson, Artur Wolek, and Derek A. Paley
2 4 Towards Hybrid Active and Passive Compliant Mechanisms in Legged Robots Milad Shafiee Ashtiani, Alborz Aghamaleki Sarvestani, Alexander Badri-Sprowitz
2 5 Dynamic Optimization of Muscle-driven Simulations of Locomotor Behaviour in Tinamou Birds (Eudromia elegans) P.J. Bishop, A. Falisse, F. De Groote, and J.R. Hutchinson
2 5 Streamlining in fire ants rafts Hungtang Ko, Ting-Ying Yu, David L. Hu
2 5 Tunabot Flex: a tuna-inspired robot with body flexibility improves high- performance swimming Carl H. White, George V. Lauder, Hilary Bart-Smith
2 6 Investigating the Problem of Foliage Passageway Detection with a Bat-inspired Robot Ruihao Wang, Rolf Muller
2 6 Design of a Simplistic Variable Stiffness Actuator Sajiv Shah and Brad Saund
2 6 Integration of Deep Learning and Soft Robotics for a Biomimetic Nonlinear Sensing Paradigm Xiaoyan Yin and Rolf Muller
2 7 Dynamics of Extreme Locomotion in Click Beetles O. Bolmin, L. Wei, K. Fezzaa, A.C. Dunn, J.J. Socha, M. Alleyne, and A. Wissa
2 7 Wild silkmoths use within-wingstroke variation to achieve agile flight Usama Bin Sikandar, Brett Aiello, and Simon Sponberg.
2 7 Cyborg Beetle: Sideways Walking Control Via Elytra Stimulation Huu Duoc Nguyen, Pakzan Tan, Hitotaka Sato, and T. Thang Vo-Doan
2 8 Elephant Trunk Skin: Nature's Flexible Kevlar Andrew K. Schulz, Emily Fourney, Sophia Sordilla, Ajay Sukhwani, and David L. Hu
2 8 Wing opening and leg flailing together facilitates strenuous ground self-righting in animals and robots Ratan Othayoth, Qihan Xuan, and Chen Li

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This is a workshop taking place at the upcoming IROS 2020 robotics conference (www.iros2020.org) taking place in Las Vega, NV, USA. For information contact