CISE PostDoc: Microrobotics and MEMS

9805548唐纳德·布鲁斯·兰德尔·达特茅斯学院博士后：微型机器人学和微机械系统结合了快速发展的技术--微电子机械系统(MEMS)、分布式机器人和生物技术系统--创造了大量自主、智能的微型机器，提供了可用于各种有用目的的新功能。通过将传感和驱动与计算和通信相结合，MEMS设备可以分布在整个环境中，覆盖在表面上，或嵌入日常物体中，以创建分布式系统，用于以前所未有的规模感知、推理和操纵物理世界中的事件。这项研究的一个主要组成部分是探索如何对大规模并行的MEMS微执行器阵列进行编程。利用生物灵感，人工鞭毛和纤毛阵列以操纵或移动的形式提供驱动。要断言聚合阵列的协调工作需要解决单个机器人代理的并行驱动问题。博士后候选人的影响包括：(1)大规模并行MEMS器件的新设计和工艺，(2)以生物为灵感实现大规模并行操作和移动的系统和设备，以及(3)人造鞭毛和纤毛阵列的控制软件和算法。将进行实验以验证该理论。这项工作是跨学科的，结合了计算机科学、生物学和工程学的成果。

9805548 Donald, Bruce Randall Dartmouth College CISE PostDoc: Microrobotics and MEMS Combining rapidly evolving technologies -- MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS), distributed robotics, and biotechnological systems -- to create large collections of autonomous, intelligent micro-machines offers new capabilities that can be exploited for a variety of useful purposes. By merging sensing and actuation with computation and communication, MEMS devices can be distributed throughout the environment, coated on surfaces, or embedded within everyday objects to create distributed systems for sensing, reasoning about, and manipulating events in the physical world on a scale never before possible. A primary component of this research is the exploration of how to program massively-parallel MEMS microactuator arrays. Drawing on biological inspiration, arrays of artificial flagella and cilia provide actuation in the form of manipulation or locomotion. Asserting a coordinated effort by the aggregate array requires addressing the parallel actuation of individual robotic agents. The impact of a postdoctoral candidate includes: (1) new designs and processes for massively-parallel MEMS devices, (2) biologically-inspired systems and devices to implement massively-parallel manipulation and locomotion, and (3) control software and algorithms for arrays of artificial flagella and cilia. Experiments will be performed to validate the theory. This work is interdisciplinary, combining results from computer science, biology, and engineering.