Biomimetic Millirobots
Event details
| Date | 19.11.2012 |
| Hour | 12:00 |
| Speaker | Ronald S. Fearing, University of California, Berkeley |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Decimeter to centimeter-scale robots will create the opportunity to manipulate, sense, and explore a widerange of environments with greatly reduced cost and expanded capabilities. In many applications, the capability of millirobots depends on three factors: 1) intelligence, 2) mobility, and 3) multiplicity. Macroscale robots are explicitly made intelligent by adding planning, sensing, computation, and control capabilities. With miniature electronics, some of this intelligence can even be brought to palm or finger size robots. For these small robots, with high power-to-weight ratios, and high surface area-to-weight ratios, aspects of intelligent behavior (such as high mobility) can arise from intrinsic mechanics. Recent advances in fabrication techniques allow low-cost manufacture of robot mechanisms which can exploit this size scale. The study of small animals such as insects, birds, and lizards has lead to "implicit intelligence'' principles which can be applied to biomimetic millirobots. There remain significant challenges for millirobots in achieving all-terrain mobility, but combiningthese new mechanisms with advanced sensing should allow cooperative teams of robots to access environments which are too difficult for current robots.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Dario Floreano
Contact
- Gonin Tania <[email protected]>