REU Site: Biomimetic and Soft Robotics (BioSoRo): from Biological Inspirations to Engineered Mechanisms

REU 网站：仿生和软机器人 (BioSoRo)：从生物学灵感到工程机制

• 批准号: 1852578
• 负责人: Yantao Shen
• 金额: $ 49.17万
• 依托单位: Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Biomimetic; Soft; Robotics

This Biomimetic and Soft Robotics (BioSoRo) REU Site at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) will engage a diverse cohort of undergraduate students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2019-2021. Hosted by the departments of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Biomedical Engineering, and Biology at UNR, this program focuses on multidisciplinary collaborative projects related to BioSoRo research that span the fields of biomimetics, additive manufacturing, smart materials, solid mechanics, and robotics and control. Participants work closely with graduate student and faculty mentors on their respective research projects, gain the knowledge and tools for progression in STEM, build a community of professionals with peers, graduate students, and faculty, and grow in their perspective on the role of STEM in society. In addition to ten weeks of intensive research, students take part in educational, social, and professional development activities that support their sustained growth as engineers and scientists, including workshops on career development, scholarship community colloquiums, and tours to Tesla Gigafactory and Amazon Warehouse where industrial robots are massively adopted. Research projects at this BioSoRo REU site entail crawling legless animals and soft crawling robots inspired by them, electroactive polymers and their applications in soft robots, supercoiled polymer actuators for soft robots, and smart materials enabled compliant biomedical devices, among others. These projects will offer an advanced and interdisciplinary platform for enhancing undergraduate research experience in the cutting-edge BioSoRo research area, which perfectly leverages fundamental science with state-of-the-art engineering. This REU Site will capitalize on the broad appeal of BioSoRo research to increase the diversity and broaden the horizons of students engaged in robotics research. Students with experience in BioSoRo are in great demand and this REU site will help train and diversify the next generation of roboticists in the 21st century.This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这款仿生和软机器人技术（Biosoro）在内华达大学里诺（UNR）的REU网站将在2019 - 2021年夏季与一系列多样化的本科生互动10周。该计划由机械工程，电气和生物医学工程和生物学部门主持，该计划着重于与Biosoro研究有关的多学科协作项目，这些项目涵盖了跨越生物基础，添加剂制造，智能材料，固体机制以及机器人和机器人和控制领域的领域。参与者与研究生和教职员工紧密合作，从事各自的研究项目，获得STEM发展的知识和工具，与同龄人，研究生和教职员工建立专业人士社区，并以他们对STEM在社会中的作用的看法。除了十周的深入研究外，学生还参加教育，社会和专业发展活动，这些活动支持他们作为工程师和科学家的持续增长，包括有关职业发展的研讨会，奖学金社区座谈会以及对Tesla Gigafactory和Amazon Warehouse的参观，并大量采用了工业机器人。这个Biosoro Reu站点的研究项目需要爬行无腿动物和受其灵感的软爬行机器人，电活性聚合物及其在软机器人中的应用，超串联的聚合物执行器，用于软机器人，以及智能材料启用了符合符合性的生物医学设备。这些项目将提供一个高级和跨学科的平台，以增强尖端Biosoro研究领域的本科研究经验，该研究领域完美地利用了最先进的工程来利用基本科学。这个REU网站将利用Biosoro Research的广泛吸引力，以增加多样性并拓宽从事机器人研究的学生的视野。在Biosoro经验的学生需求量很大，此REU网站将有助于培训和多样化21世纪的下一代机器人主义者。该站点得到国防部与NSF REU计划合作的支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法规任务，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的critia criter scritia criters criters criter criter criter criter criter criteria criter criter criter criter criter criteria criteria criteria criteria criter criteria criteria criteria criteria均值得一提。

项目成果

Helically Wrapped Supercoiled Polymer (HW-SCP) Artificial Muscles: Design, Characterization, and Modeling

螺旋包裹超螺旋聚合物 (HW-SCP) 人工肌肉：设计、表征和建模

• DOI: 10.1109/icra40945.2020.9197330
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA
• 作者: Tsabedze, Thulani;Mullen, Christopher;Coulter, Ryan;Wade, Scott;Zhang, Jun
• 通讯作者: Zhang, Jun

Analysis and Validation of Serpentine Locomotion Dynamics of a Wheeled Snake Robot Moving on Varied Sloped Environments

轮式蛇形机器人在不同坡度环境下的蛇形运动动力学分析与验证

• DOI: 10.1109/aim43001.2020.9158974
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM
• 作者: Lim, Jason;Yang, Weixin;Shen, Yantao;Yi, Jingang
• 通讯作者: Yi, Jingang

Tribological interactions of 3D printed polyurethane and polyamide with water-responsive skin model

• DOI: 10.1007/s40544-020-0472-2
• 发表时间: 2021-02
• 期刊: Friction
• 影响因子: 6.8
• 作者: A. Kasar;Ashton Chan;V. Shamanaev;P. Menezes