Symposium: Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics, January 5, 2018, San Francisco, California

动物用于运动的附肢，如翅膀和四肢，扮演着传感器和推进器的双重角色。 来自传感器的及时和相关的反馈对于动物的运动性能至关重要，并且是机器人工程的关键设计特征。为了推进感官反馈在动物运动中的作用的研究，一个研讨会，题为“感官反馈和动物运动：从生物学和生物机器人学的观点”，将于2018年1月5日在加利福尼亚州旧金山弗朗西斯科举行的比较生物学和解剖学学会（SICB）年会上。通过一个不同的研究小组，本次研讨会将突出与动物运动相关的感官刺激，编码刺激的不同策略，以及生物学，工程学和机器人技术之间的交叉。这次会议将促进生物学家和工程师之间新的跨学科合作，并确定未来的研究方向，以开发可在机器人技术中实施的感官控制系统。此外，本次研讨会将包括一个导师计划，使六个美洲原住民本科生参加他们的第一次科学会议。六名研究生/博士后也属于STEM领域代表性不足的群体，他们将担任美洲原住民学生的导师。导师计划将确保这次会议是一个丰富的经验，为本科生，并将他们接触到各种科学学科，未来的研究生导师，和科学的职业道路。动物的运动附属物，从昆虫的翅膀到四足动物的四肢，执行双重角色作为传感器和推进器，感觉反馈是至关重要的运动性能的动物。一个跨学科的研讨会，“感觉反馈和动物运动：从生物学和生物机器人的角度来看，”将在比较生物学和解剖学学会（SICB）年会上举行。与传感器集成的机器人附件也将依赖于感觉反馈来调整输出信号。虽然工程师经常寻求生物学来解决机器人运动中遇到的问题，但生物学家也必须与工程师合作，利用计算机和机器人模型来帮助回答有关感官反馈在产生有效运动中的作用的问题。通过一组跨越一系列学科和职业阶段的科学家，研讨会将展示推进器运动的机械感觉反馈的生物学原理，这些原理可以在工程设备中实现，并促进未来研究计划的发展，旨在进一步整合工程和机器人领域与更传统的生物学。此外，一个成功的导师计划，与本土探险家计划合作，将重新建立，使美洲原住民本科生参加他们的第一次科学会议。每一个美洲原住民本科生将与导师配对，以确保丰富和积极的经验。该计划将为美洲原住民学生提供一个独特的机会，否则他们将无法与不同经验水平，机构类型，研究学科和种族背景的多元化研究人员进行互动。

The appendages animals use for locomotion, such as wings and limbs, perform dual roles as sensors and propulsors. Timely and relevant feedback from the sensors is critical to the locomotor performance of animals and is a key design feature of robotic engineering. In order to advance the study of the role of sensory feedback in animal locomotion, a symposium, entitled "Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics," will be held in San Francisco, CA on January 5, 2018 at the Society for Comparative Biology and Anatomy's (SICB) Annual Meeting. Through a diverse group of researchers, this symposium will highlight the relevant sensory stimuli associated with animal movement, the different strategies for encoding stimuli, and the intersection between biology, engineering, and robotics. This gathering will catalyze new interdisciplinary collaborations between biologists and engineers and identify future research directions for the development of sensory control systems that can be implemented in robotics. Additionally, this symposium will include a mentorship program that enables six Native American undergraduate students to attend their first scientific meeting. Six graduate students/postdocs, who also belong to underrepresented groups in STEM, will act as mentors to the Native American students. The mentorship program will ensure that this meeting is an enriching experience for the undergraduates and will expose them to a variety of scientific disciplines, prospective graduate school mentors, and scientific career paths.The locomotor appendages of animals, from insect wings to tetrapod limbs, perform dual roles as sensors and propulsors, and sensory feedback is critical to the motor performance of animals. An interdisciplinary symposium, "Sensory feedback and animal locomotion: perspectives from biology and biorobotics," will be held at the Society for Comparative Biology and Anatomy's (SICB) Annual Meeting. Robotic appendages that are integrated with sensors will also rely on sensory feedback to adjust output signals. While engineers often look to biology for solutions to problems experienced in robotic movement, biologists too must engage with engineers to utilize computer and robotic models to help answer questions on the role of sensory feedback in generating effective movement. Through a group of scientists spanning a range of disciplines and career stages, the symposium will demonstrate biological principles for mechanosensory feedback of propulsor movement that could be implemented in engineered devices and foster the development of future research programs aimed to further integrate the fields of engineering and robotics with more traditional biology. Further, a successful mentorship program, in collaboration with the Native Explorers Program, will be reestablished to bring Native American undergraduates to participate in their first scientific meeting. Each Native American undergraduate will be paired with a mentor to ensure an enriching and positive experience. This program will offer a unique opportunity for Native American students that would otherwise not experience interactions with a diverse group of researchers of different experience levels, types of institutions, research disciplines and racial backgrounds.