AIM 2019 Workshop on “Towards Soft Robotics for Biomimetics and Applications: Emerging Sensors, Actuators, and Methods”

Overview

AIM 2019 Workshop on “Towards Soft Robotics for Biomimetics and Applications: Emerging Sensors, Actuators, and Methods”
Full-Day workshop.

Organizers

• Gen Endo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• Yang Shen (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Ka-Wai Kwok (University of Hong Kong)
• Jacob Rosen (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Hao Su (City University of New York, City College)
• Kenjiro Tadakuma (Tohoku University)
• Toshio Takayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Abstract

During the past few years, advancement in material sciences, additive manufacturing, flexible electronics, sensor/actuators, and intelligent computation/algorithms creates new opportunities for research and development of soft robots. The paradigm shifts from rigid contact towards soft interaction enable not only a safer physical human‐robot interaction but also new forms of robots thanks to passive adaptability and light‐weight design. The full‐day workshop brings experts in the field together to present the state‐of‐the‐art work and discuss the trend of enabling technologies for soft robots that are either biomimetic or for real‐world applications such as advanced tendon actuation, pneumatic artificial muscles, musculoskeletal mechanism, biomimetic locomotion, smart and flexible sensors, compliance control, etc.

List of speakers

• Koichi Suzumori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  “Soft Robotics as E-kagen Science”
• Kenjiro Tadakuma (Tohoku University)
  “Fiber Jamming Gripper Mechanisms with High Protection Ability”
• Gen Endo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  “Development of “Super” tendon-driven mechanisms using high tensile strength synthetic fiber ropes”
• Toshio Takayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  “Bundled tube locomotive device: the first idea came from the movement of a microorganism”
• Paddy Chan (The University of Hong Kong)
  “Smart flexible sensors based on organic electronics”
• Hongliang Ren (National University of Singapore)
  “Collaborative Robotics with Continuum and Compliance”
• Li Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  TBD
• Pakpong Chirarattananon (City University of Hong Kong)
  “Origami-Inspired Fabrication and the Development of Microrobotic Insects”

Schedule (Tentative)

Time Speaker(s) and Poster Session
09:30 – 09:40 Introduction by the organizers
09:40 – 10:05 Koichi Suzumori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
10:05 – 10:30 Kenjiro Tadakuma (Tohoku University)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:25 Gen Endo (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
11:25 – 11:50 Toshio Takayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
11:50 – 12:30 Spotlight (each poster 2 minutes)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:25 Paddy Chan (The University of Hong Kong)
14:25 – 14:50 Hongliang Ren (National University of Singapore)
14:50 – 15:30 Poster Session
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:25 Li Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
16:25 – 16:50 Pakpong Chirarattananon (City University of Hong Kong)
16:50 – 17:00 Best Poster Award Ceremony

Presentation details

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