IRES: US-China Collaboration: Bats as Model Organisms for Bioinspired Engineering

IRES：美中合作：蝙蝠作为仿生工程的模型生物

• 批准号: 1658620
• 负责人: Rolf Mueller
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-02-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658620&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; US; China; Collaboration; Bats

Bats are capable of swift, autonomous navigation through complex, natural environments - a feat that cannot be replicated by engineers at present. The central hypothesis behind this research is that system-level synergies between sensing, mobility, and control functions are critical factors behind achieving these unmatched capabilities of bats. To understand how these system-level synergies arise in nature, participating students will be advised by faculty teams spanning six departments to conduct interdisciplinary research projects centered on one of the following topics: acoustical scene statistics of natural bat habitats, dynamic biosonar sensing, maneuvering flight, neural control, physiological basis of sound emission and reception. All student projects will be based in the Shandong University - Virginia Tech International Laboratory in China.The educational outcomes of the project will be undergraduate and graduate students with interdisciplinary skills between biology and engineering that will allow them to interpret biological functions from an engineering perspective and within their respective biological contexts. Furthermore, the IRES trainees will acquire intercultural competencies to work effectively in international teams. The project's scientific outcomes will enable engineers to design better integrated autonomous systems, e.g., self-navigating drones, that will have bat-like capabilities to deal with natural, unconstrained environments, such dense vegetation.

蝙蝠能够在复杂的自然环境中快速、自主地导航——这是目前工程师无法复制的壮举。这项研究背后的中心假设是，传感、移动和控制功能之间的系统级协同作用是蝙蝠实现这些无与伦比的能力的关键因素。为了了解这些系统级协同作用在自然界中是如何产生的，跨越六个系的教师团队将建议参与的学生开展以以下主题之一为中心的跨学科研究项目：自然蝙蝠栖息地的声学场景统计、动态生物声纳传感、机动飞行、神经控制、声音发射和接收的生理基础。所有学生项目都将设在中国山东大学-弗吉尼亚理工大学国际实验室。该项目的教育成果将是本科生和研究生拥有生物学和工程学之间的跨学科技能，使他们能够从工程学角度并在各自的生物学背景下解释生物功能。此外，IRES 学员将获得跨文化能力，以便在国际团队中有效工作。该项目的科学成果将使工程师能够设计出更好的集成自主系统，例如自动导航无人机，该系统将具有类似蝙蝠的能力来处理自然、不受约束的环境，例如茂密的植被。

项目成果

Student Learning in International Research Programs: A Comparison Across Cultural Contexts

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--31008
• 发表时间: 2018-06
• 作者: Kirsten A. Davis;Yousef Jalali;D. Knight;V. Lohani;Rolf Müller

Proper orthogonal decomposition of straight and level flight kinematics in an insectivorous bat

食虫蝙蝠直线和平飞运动学的正确正交分解

• DOI: 10.2514/6.2018-2155
• 发表时间: 2018-01
• 期刊: AIAA SciTech Forum
• 作者: Xiaozhou Fan;Peter Windes;Danesh Tafti;Susheel Sekhar;Matt Bender;Andrew Kurdila;Rolf Müller
• 通讯作者: Rolf Müller

Development and Contribution to Students’ Intercultural Skills: A Case Study of an International Collaborative Site

• DOI: 10.1109/fie43999.2019.9028675
• 发表时间: 2019-10
• 期刊: 2019 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
• 作者: Yousef Jalali;Rolf Müller;V. Lohani