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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: Modeling\, realization and control of CyberOctop
 uses\, soft creatures and other biological machines
DTSTART:20221025T120000
DTEND:20221025T130000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Mattia Gazzola\, Mechanical Science and Engineering Depa
 rtment\, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\nAbstract: We introduce a
  modeling approach based on assemblies of Cosserat rods for the simulation
 \, design and control of complex muscular architectures. Our methods are d
 emonstrated in a number of settings\, from CyberOctopuses to biological ro
 bots\, showing how costly control computations can be effectively offloade
 d to the physics of the body\, as it interacts with its environment.\n\nBi
 ography: Mattia Gazzola is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Scienc
 e and Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champ
 aign. He joined UIUC in Fall 2016 after a postdoc at Harvard and PhD at ET
 H Zurich. His work lies at the interface between numerics\, bio-physics\, 
 robotics and computing. His studies were awarded with the ETH Medal\, Earl
 y and Advanced Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowships\, NSF CAREER\
 , and featured on the cover of several scientific journals including Scien
 ce\, Nature and PRL. He is the Lead PI and co-director of the center-scale
  NSF Expedition "Mind in Vitro -- Computing with Living Neurons".
LOCATION:MED 0 1418 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418 https://epf
 l.zoom.us/j/65387864766
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