The self-assembly of colloidal particles is a route to designed materials production that combines high flexibility, cost effectiveness, and the opportunity to create ordered structures at length scales ranging from nano- to micrometers. For many practical applications in electronics, photovoltaics, and biomimetic material synthesis, ordered mono- and bilayers are often needed. Here we present ...

We describe an experimental testbed which we have constructed to study carangiform fish-like swimming. We mimic a carangiform fish with a three-link robot, the tailfin link of which acts as a flat-plate hydrofoil. We experiment with sinusoidal signals to the joint actuators. The experimental results agree well with a simulation assuming quasi-steady flow around the tailfin. 1. Motivation Many f...

The Psikharpax project aims at endowing a robot with a sensori-motor equipment and a neural control architecture that will afford some of the capacities of autonomy and adaptation that are exhibited by real rats. The paper summarizes the current state of achievement of the project. It successively describes the robot’s future sensors and actuators, and several biomimetic models of the anatomy a...

Auditorium: Talks, Session 1 Chair: Amanda Brock 9:15 – 9:30 Alireza Ramezani Bat Robot, an Underactuated Biomimetic Micro Aerial Vehicle with Membranous Wings (1.1) 9:30 – 9:45 Meraj Khan Identification and localization of putative oviduct glycan receptors ADAM5 and PKDREJ on boar spermatozoa: changes during capacitation and freezing (1.2) 9:45 – 10:00 Vincent Reverdy Relativistic effects in c...

Our facial expression robots use biomimetic structures, aesthetic design principles, and recent breakthroughs in elastomer material sciences to enact a sizable range of natural humanlike facial expressions. Applications of this class of human-robot interface devices will rise in relevance as humans and robots begin to have more sociable encounters in the coming years. The Identity Emulation pro...

Abstract: This paper focuses on a dolphin-like swimming hydrodynamics problem for a biomimetic amphibious robot capable of both fishand dolphin-like swimming modes. A Lagrangian reduction has been established in terms of rigid-body dynamics. For robust gait control, a central pattern generator-based approach is incorporated into the model serving as explicit joint angle control. Consequently, a...

Undulatory locomotion is studied as a biological paradigm of versatile body morphology and effective motion control, adaptable to a large variety of unstructured and tortuous environmental conditions. Computational models of undulatory locomotion have been developed, and validated on a series of robotic prototypes propelling themselves on sand. The present paper explores in simulation neuromusc...

Lobsters are capable of tracking turbulent plumes to their sources faster than can be accomplished by estimating a spatial gradient from time-averaging the concentration signal. We have used RoboLobster, a biomimetic robot lobster to investigate biologically scaled chemotaxis algorithms using two point concentration sampling to track a statistically characterized turbulent plume. Our results id...

The microbiome's underlying dynamics play an important role in regulating the behavior and health of its host. In order to explore the details of these interactions, we created an in silico model of a living microbiome, engineered with synthetic biology, that interfaces with a biomimetic, robotic host. By analytically modeling and computationally simulating engineered gene networks in these com...