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.

这个仿生和软机器人（BioSoRo） REU站点位于内华达大学里诺分校（UNR），将在2019-2021年的夏季吸引不同的本科生，为期10周。该项目由UNR机械工程系、电气与生物医学工程系和生物系主办，重点关注与BioSoRo研究相关的多学科合作项目，涵盖仿生学、增材制造、智能材料、固体力学、机器人与控制等领域。参与者在各自的研究项目中与研究生和教师导师密切合作，获得STEM进步的知识和工具，与同行，研究生和教师建立专业社区，并在他们对STEM在社会中的作用的看法上成长。除了为期十周的深入研究外，学生们还参加教育、社会和专业发展活动，以支持他们作为工程师和科学家的持续成长，包括职业发展研讨会、奖学金社区研讨会，以及参观大规模采用工业机器人的特斯拉超级工厂和亚马逊仓库。这个BioSoRo REU网站的研究项目包括爬行无腿动物和受其启发的软爬行机器人，电活性聚合物及其在软机器人中的应用，软机器人的超卷曲聚合物执行器，以及智能材料兼容的生物医学设备等。这些项目将提供一个先进的跨学科平台，以加强前沿BioSoRo研究领域的本科生研究经验，完美地将基础科学与最先进的工程技术相结合。这个REU网站将利用BioSoRo研究的广泛吸引力来增加多样性，拓宽从事机器人研究的学生的视野。具有BioSoRo经验的学生需求量很大，这个REU网站将有助于培养21世纪下一代机器人专家并使其多样化。该站点由国防部与NSF REU项目合作提供支持。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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