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Robots today are expected to operate in a variety of scenarios, being able to cope with uncertain situations and to react quickly to changes in the environment. In this scenario a strong relationship between nature and technology plays a major role, with the winning approach of evaluating natural systems to abstract principles for new designs. Such biological principles traditionally originate from animal models for robots that can walk, swim, crawl, or fly. In this workshop we aim at discussing and constructively comparing some technological solutions and their biological models coming from both animals and plants. In the animal paradigm a function is opten related to an organ or compartment. Instead plants are networked, decentralized, modular, redundant, and resilient. Plants are able to move, control, sense, but they do in a different way with respect animals or other living beings. PLANTOID, ANIMALOIDS and HUMANOIDS represent the starting point of the event, in which features and capabiities of these robotic platforms are analyzed and applicative scenarios proposed. Under this scientific and technological umbrella, we will compare ideas, biological features, and technological translations coming from the two Kingdoms and related to areas of interest in robotics: movement, sensing and control. Movement, usually ascribed to animals, is also pertinent to plants that move in a very efficient way. We will discuss the physics of plant movements and compare new actuators and materials that are or not muscle-like. Bioinspired sensing systems will be discussed, these including: the stick insect sensory system focusing on active touch mechanisms; flow sensing for fish lateral line systems, and in plants touch and chemical sensing and relative behaviour. Control "with and without brain" is the concluding part. The biological models and their technological equivalent will be: plants, as information-processing organisms with complex communication throughout the individual body, in which the "command center" is mainly distributed at the apex root level, for new modeling of signaling and distributed networks; octopus, with distributed control in its peripheral nervous system, for distributed embodied control models of new soft robots; and, computational models of motion in animals, e.g. cats and salamanders, will be presented as solutions for locomotion control in quadruped robots. The discussion sessions during the whole workshop will be chaired and guided by a professional science communicator, who will give a view "out of the box" of biorobotics and its future impacts on the society.

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  • 09月28日

    2015

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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
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