The Challenge of Ant Sized Robots is coming at 02/19/2019 - 10:00am Rogers 226 Tue, 02/19/2019 - 10:00am
Ryan St. Pierre Post-Doctoral Researcher, Carnegie Mellon University Abstract: The highly dynamic mobility of insects inspires an entire field of microrobotics, with future visions of ubiquitous small-scale robots. However, current microrobots pale in comparison to insects not only in mobility and application capabilities, but overall in autonomy. Insects take advantage of their muscles as actuators, neural systems for control, mechanisms from multiple materials, and a variety of sensors to accomplish tasks. This leads to driving questions (1) what enables highly dynamic mobility, and ultimately autonomy, in insects and (2) how can we apply lessons learned about insects to small-scale robots that are inherently resource constrained? To begin answering these questions, physical, robotic models are utilized as reduced parameter analogs to biological systems. An experimental platform and robots are presented to study locomotion that is scalable and adaptable for different robot designs from 1 g to 1 mg. Experimental data is coupled with numerical models to begin understanding the role of legs and material choice as robots scale down in size. Multiple materials enable dynamic behaviors in insects, while robots can use material to program desired behaviors. Bringing together experimental robotic platforms, biological system insights, and computation models, this work points toward directions to enable future autonomy in microrobotics platforms. Bio: Read more: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/challenge-ant-sized-robots [1] [1] http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/colloquium/challenge-ant-sized-robots
_______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
